Contents: 1. Setting the scene -- 2. From cultural heritage to local development -- 3. Creativity: definitions and measures -- 4. A new conceptual framework for the definition and measurement of creativity -- 5. From cultural heritage to creativity -- 6. From creativity to socio-economic...

This paper models the migration of the Creative Class (Florida, 2003) in a New-Economic-Geography framework. Beside wage differentials, urban cultural amenities play an important role on the choice of location. A public cultural good, financed by taxes, is introduced as an agglomeration force....