Province columnist (and sometime PT contributor) Derek Moscato picks up on an idea I floated a few weeks ago:
… it’s not enough for a place to cater exclusively to hip professionals, according to (Richard) Florida (author of “The Creative Class”). Cities like Vancouver must also tap into the creativity of their trades and service workers — from plumbers to cab drivers to coffee shop baristas.
Gordon Price, director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University, took Florida’s point one step further — saying that Vancouver should also tap into the creativity of a quite different class of workers: binners.
While Price drew a few blank stares, the former Vancouver city councillor is clearly onto something.
Full column here.
