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Sociology has seen a revival of cultural studies, with many urban and community scholars especially interested in the ways in which culture brings about strategies for action (see Swidler 1986). In the present paper, we examine a sample of people who are part of an expat "digital nomad: subculture, and ask what cultural "toolkit" nomads use to solve their problems back home? To do so, this paper analyzes data from fieldwork and 70 formal interviews to examine a sample of creative class professionals who left their homes in order to become expat digital nomads, "professionals who prefer a locationindependent lifestyle that allows them to travel and work anywhere in the world" (Mohn 2014). Given that interacting, social communities depend, in part, upon shared values in order to flourish, we identified the five core values that inform digital nomads' decisions to take action to leave home and engage in nomad community building abroad. We label these values: individualism, selfimprovement, sharing and helping, positivity and hustle, and minimalism. As each value is significant to the character of their communitybuilding, we first discuss them individually and then describe their confluence in Bali's digital nomad community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gentrification, the movement of middle-class or affluent people into working-class and lower-income urban neighborhoods, has been shown to improve some aspects of neighborhood life, but can often have negative consequences for longtime residents. This research examines gentrification through a case study of Lawrenceville, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that recently has been undergoing revitalization. Through conducting semi-structured interviews with both long-time residents and newer arrivals, this study highlights how community members experience quality of life in the midst of a transition from being a relatively low-income area to a destination spot for the "creative class" of artistic "hipsters," many of whom are students or recent graduates from local universities. Our findings show that the type of gentrification experienced in Lawrenceville is gradual with minimal tension and, therefore, not threatening to long-time residents due to the identity and modest means of the newcomers. In addition, there is evidence to suggest that both new and long-time residents are united on tourist issues that threaten the tight-knit community of Lawrenceville. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Perspectives of growth of current global and European economies are nowadays often conditioned also by successful development and building creative industries. Creativity and creative class growth are currently considered to be one of the main prerequisites of sustainable business and successful development at both, level of individual nations and regions. However, not every region has the conditions for existence and growth of creative class. The ambition of this study is to demonstrate a way how to gradually find and identify these conditions. The introductory part of this study presents brief research of theoretical terms defining the areas of creative industries, creative class and the creative areas, and their impact on the state economy. Then the study, using the collection of secondary information, analyzes the aspects, which positively affect the creative class growth in various European countries, and explores the perspectives of creative class growth in the Czech Republic and its selected region. Given that the study deals with the identification of creative class growth, the main aspects at the regional level, the current situation was investigated by collecting primary information. The objective of the research carried out, was to define possibilities of the region's development by higher concentration of creative class and creative city image creation, and also to find an answer for the research question „What is or may be the importance of the university in supporting the graduates as freelancers“. Discussion and conclusion, on the basis of the results of research investigations and using referrals from other EU states, identifying conditions supporting the creative class growth at a regional level and defining the role of the university in supporting the graduates as freelancers in the area of creative industry. A comparison of the results led to designing the model „creative co-working center“, with characteristics of the activities identified by the analysis of research investigations. The model can then be used by the university in the implementation of supporting activities to enhance the employability of graduates - freelancers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gentrification, the movement of middle-class or affluent people into working-class and lower-income urban neighborhoods, has been shown to improve some aspects of neighborhood life, but can often have negative consequences for longtime residents. This research examines gentrification through a case study of Lawrenceville, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that recently has been undergoing revitalization. Through conducting semi-structured interviews with ten long-term residents and ten newer arrivals, this study highlights how community members experience quality of life in the midst of a transition from being a relatively lowincome area to a destination spot for the "creative class" of artistic "hipsters," many of whom are students or recent graduates from local universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that a new type of cities emerges in contemporary industrialized Western societies. The urban transformation is closely tied to the existence of prevalent paradigms in these societies at the beginning of the 21st century. I identify creativity and sustainability as paradigms that have discoursive power. The paradigms both affect the characteristics of contemporary societies and, in a further step, enter the field of urban planning. Based on the findings of qualitative research carried out in two Western European cities, Dublin (Ireland) and Gothenburg (Sweden), I identify the Green Creative City as new type of cities. The Green Creative City as urban form has three central characteristics: (1) the planning strategies to design the cities are influenced by the combination of two paradigms of contemporary societies: creativity and sustainability; (2) a specific spatial-material structure and temporality is characteristic for the cities; (3) the usage of creativity and sustainability as guidelines of local planning can best be described with the notion of the "travels of ideas" (Czarniawska and Joerges 1996). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gentrification, the movement of middle-class families into working-class and lowerincome urban neighborhoods, has been shown to improve some aspects of neighborhood life, but in many cases it has negative consequences for longtime residents. This research examines gentrification through a case study of Lawrenceville, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that has recently been revitalized. Through conducting semi-structured interviews with ten longterm residents and ten newer arrivals, this study will highlight how community members experience quality of life in the midst of a transition from a relatively low-income area to a destination spot for the "creative class" of artistic "hipsters," many of whom are students or recent graduates from local universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts of international management topics which include the role of personal values in job choice, international research and development networks in the consumer electronics industry, and immigrant entrepreneurs' bicultural identity integration and social capital creation.

The general objective of the paper is the scientific foundation of the necessity to implement the model of the creative economy and knowledge-based society in Romania. The reason why we have chosen this topic for our paper regards also the fact that 2009 had been declared "The European Year for Creativity and Innovation" In this respect, the paper is aimed at describing the attitudes young Romanians have towards creativity in general and the creative industries in particular. The target of the present study is represented by young people because it is first and foremost young people who are more knowledgeable about the creative industries and are kept abreast with the most recent discoveries, developments and advancements in the field. The main research whose results are being disseminated through this paper are part of a national research project, "Creative economy and knowledge-based society: Challenges and opportunities for Romania" (IDEI 1224), project granted by competition in 2007. Taking after the British classification model of the creative industries in an attempt to implement the concept in the Romanian economy as well, this study is meant to be a first step in acknowledging this issue on a scientific basis. Moreover, the purpose of this paper is to quantify, to some extent, the openness of our society for the new fields of activity comprised by the creative industries. This study offers perspectives for future research, diverting the focus from the population as a way of evaluating attitudes towards the business environment in search of evaluating the behavior of companies in this sector. The paper highlights the importance of the topic for Romania, a catching up country according to the last Report of Innovation Scoreboad in the European Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Quality is a key term in media organizations. Public broadcasters are even justified by it. Yet, viewer ratings show a declining interest in classic quality genres such as news and documentaries, and not just among the younger generation. Does the quality audience no longer exist or does quality programming no longer appeal to what could be termed the 'quality audience'? This paper answers to the 'crisis in quality television' by revealing the outcome of a large-scale qualitative audience study of the changing taste and media use of 251 active, articulate, well-educated, socially involved citizens as well as media users who given their passion for and interest in media can be considered as an audience of experts. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "creative class" is a growing stratum of the American labor consisting of nomadic workers who master self-promotion for economic survival. Using ethnographic and interview data from a Los Angeles church with a majority of attenders from the entertainment industry, the paper demonstrates how a congregation provides moral guidance that channels believers such that the pursuit of fame and fortune is viewed as a veneer for the real self who, in concert with the moral community, reshapes society to be more congruent with their religious beliefs. This ego-affirming evangelicalism suggests religious structures that accommodate individual "greatness" within a cohesive community will be embraced by creative class workers seeking both inspiration and consolation in the midst of occupational uncertainty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on the case of Nashville TN, this paper examines the nature of urban amenities in the developing downtowns of Sunbelt cities. While not reversing the overall tendencies towards sprawl in the region, there has been a surge in patterns of “in-town” living in Nashville exemplified by downtown residential development and first-ring neighborhood gentrification. These developments market inner-city residence to a distinct class of young, educated professionals, often employed in “creative” occupations such as those found in Nashville’s billion dollar music industry, or in producer services oriented to its growing corporate economy. As in other Sunbelt cities with weak traditions of inner-city living, Nashville’s developers, urban planners and entrepreneurs are designing new development on the example of the Northern city, and especially that of New York’s Greenwich Village. This is seen in the adoption of principles of urban design advocated by Jane Jacobs and modeled on mid-century Greenwich Village, as well as in the leveraging of cultural styles associated with urban bohemia in the development of consumption amenities. These principles promote the integration of a postindustrial workforce in and around the downtown, but they also entail new patterns of symbolic violence and social exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sharon Zukin developed the concept of the symbolic economy in 1995, yet her framework has been under-utilized by sociologists for understanding the importance of the cultural realm in contemporary dynamics of urban development. This paper, which is part of a larger project on the relationship between arts and cities understood from a political-economy perspective, applies Zukin's ideas of symbolic economy to understand the recent patterns of change in the Twin Cities. The concept is useful for understanding current policies in many U.S. cities like the Twin Cities where city governments and business leaders have invested in cultural amenities like art museums, theaters, concert halls, parks and sports stadiums even as states and cities face successive years of budget cuts. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Florida's (2002) creative class theory has ignited controversy on the role of diversity in promoting social differentiation across US cities and metropolitan areas. This paper extends this theory to the neighborhood level and empirically examines the role that population diversity plays in the social and economic growth of Chicago neighborhoods by attracting new creative and talented residents. It draws on Fischer's (1975) subcultural theory of urbanism and recent scholarship on immigration to explain the social processes through which the diversity can generate new creative energies. Moreover, this paper adds to Florida's controversial conceptualization of diversity a new, more rigorous definition that integrates multi-ethnic, linguistic, immigrant, and regional components. Consistent with predictions, the findings show that diversity attracts increasing concentrations of creative class and highly skilled individuals, even after accounting for spatial spillovers. However, unlike bohemians, scientists or educators, the professionals' group tends to wither away from diverse neighborhoods, indicating the need to significantly reconsider Florida's definition of the creative class. Finally, the results also underscore the importance of accounting for the dynamic social processes in which, by impacting neighborhood growth, diversity potentially undermines itself. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the impact of liberalization policies on creative outcomes. We use two different proxies for liberalization policies: legalization of medicinal marijuana and legalization of same-sex unions and domestic partnerships; and two different measures of creative outcomes: the number of patents and gross domestic product of artistic production. Our empirical strategy exploits the staggered timing of legalization policies across different states in the United States. Our findings show that after controlling for state-level R&D and education-specific expenditures, liberalization policies increased artistic production by 4% to 7% and patenting by 10% to 16% at the state level. Further analysis suggests that the impact on patenting cannot be solely explained by the inter-state movement of inventors after policy changes. Interestingly, we find that while the total number of inventors in treatment states increases, the net inter-state flow of more prolific inventors goes down after the enactment of the liberalization policies. Our results suggest that liberalization policies facilitate regional innovation by promoting diverse and tolerant environments. We discuss implications for regional and organizational policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]