Document Type
Reviews and Responses
Abstract
Visits to most tiny towns in the U.S. Midwest are for me, a Kansas boy raised in a town of fewer than 300 souls, depressing. Empty streets and vacant retail spaces signify a local economy that has hit the wall - a far cry from the vibrant commercial district of my boyhood, which included our own family-owned mercantile. But then I visited Fairfield, Iowa. Here, I found an old familiar small town "buzz," plied by ethnic restaurants, art galleries, assorted retail venues, and an ethnically diverse population that rivals most U.S. cities - in short, a town with imagination. I wondered: after all the money Iowa has poured into small town economic development to no avail, could the answer lie in its own backyard?
Publication Date
Fall 2005
Journal Title
UNIversitas
Volume
1
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
2
Copyright
©2005 Mike Klassen
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Klassen, Mike
(2005)
"A Review by Mike Klassen of The Rise of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida,"
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity: Vol. 1:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/universitas/vol1/iss1/6
