A Discovery of Creative Talent in the Margins of Urban Development

Abstract

production. Increasingly, though, creativity is perceived in a broader sense to refer to any aspect of economic renewal. This broad interpretation of creativity is evident from recent popular as well as academic debates in which the rise of a creative economy is stressed. This creative economy seems to refer to a growing power of ideas or the importance of thinking prior to producing any goods or services. For instance, Coy (2000, no page numbering) holds that 'the turn of the millennium is a turn from