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Class-Ifying London: Questioning Social Division And Space Claims In The Post-Industrial Metropolis, Mark Davidson, Elvin Wyly
Class-Ifying London: Questioning Social Division And Space Claims In The Post-Industrial Metropolis, Mark Davidson, Elvin Wyly
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Richard Florida's Rise of the Creative Class of 2002 ends with a clarion call for a post-industrial, post-class sensibility: 'The task of building a truly creative society is not a game of solitaire. This game, we play as a team.' Florida's sentiment has been echoed across a broad and interdisciplinary literature in social theory and public policy, producing a new conventional wisdom: that class antagonisms are redundant in today's climate of competitive professionalism and a dominant creative mainstream. Questions of social justice are thus deflected by reassurances that there is no 'I' in team, and that 'we' must always be …