Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition: Uncreative Destruction -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. ART, CULTURE, AND NEW YORK CITY -- Chapter 2. HOW IT ALL BEGAN: From the Rise of the Factory to the Rise of Bling -- Chapter 3. BECOMING CREATIVE -- Chapter 4. THE...

This study identifies clusters of U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with similar knowledge traits. These groups -- ranging from Making Regions, characterized by knowledge about manufacturing, to Thinking Regions, noted for knowledge about the arts, humanities, information technology, and...

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