Seeking Talent for Creative Cities: The Social Dynamics of Innovation (Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442615443 ISBN 13: 9781442615441

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2014

Synopsis

With the growth of knowledge-based economies, cities across the globe must compete to attract and retain the most talented workers. Seeking Talent for Creative Cities offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the diverse, dynamic factors that affect cities’ ability to achieve this goal.

Based on a comparative national study of 16 Canadian cities, this volume systematically evaluates the concerns facing workers operating in a range of creative endeavours. It draws on interviews, surveys, and census data collected over a six-year research program conducted by experts in business, public policy, urban studies, and communications studies to identify the characteristics and features of particular city-regions that influence these workers’ mobility and satisfaction. Seeking Talent for Creative Cities represents a rigorously empirical test of popular wisdom on the true relationship between urban development and economic competitiveness.

About this title

About the Author:

Jill L. Grant is a professor in the School of Planning at Dalhousie University.

Review:

“Written by the crème de la crème of Canadian economic and urban geography, Seeking Talent for Creative Cities presents the results of cutting-edge research on the relationship between creativity and cities within the Canadian context. Based on thorough and original research, the volume contains a wealth of information on how Canadian cities cope with the shift to an economy based on innovation.”

(Robert C. Kloosterman, Professor of Economic Geography and Planning, University of Amsterdam)

“A strong contribution to the literature, Seeking Talent for Creative Cities provides much-needed solid empirical data, both qualitative and quantitative, in a field that is otherwise lacking in empirical evidence.”

(Henrik Mattsson, Senior Consultant, SWECO Group)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1442615443
• ISBN 13: 9781442615441
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Grant Jill