Rethinking Human Capital, Creativity and Urban Growth

@article{Storper2008RethinkingHC,
  title={Rethinking Human Capital, Creativity and Urban Growth},
  author={Michael Storper and Allen J. Scott},
  journal={Journal of Economic Geography},
  year={2008},
  volume={9},
  pages={147-167}
}
Do jobs follow people or do people follow jobs? A number of currently prominent approaches to urbanization respond to this question by privileging the role of individual locational choice in response to amenity values as the motor of contemporary urban growth. Amenities, it is often said, have an especially potent effect on the migration patterns of individuals endowed with high levels of human capital. However, these approaches raise many unanswered questions. Theories that describe urban… 
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