(2004-03-03) Shea Vs Florida

Christopher Shea on the critics of Richard Florida, esp Joel Kotkin. As for Kotkin's alternate list of hot spots, Florida says: "I will take any day Boston and San Francisco and New York over Las Vegas and Des Moines and the rest of Joel's cities." The latter group, he points out, just end up manufacturing and distributing what the more "creative" cities have invented.