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Why We Should Stop Conflating Cities With Innovation and Creativity

December 4, 2019/

Rural Urban divide

The language we use to discuss innovation and creativity has such a pro-urban bias that we’ve forgotten these qualities flourish outside of cities, too.

The non-urban is systematically, and usually unconsciously, devalued by scholars and policymakers. And this bias persists despite abundant evidence to the contrary.

Richard Shearmur
Director of the School of Urban Planning, McGill University


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