Open AccessCity-region or urban-rural framework: what matters more in understanding the residential location of the creative class?
Author(s) -
Jani Kozina,
Nick Clifton
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
acta geographica slovenica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.473
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1581-8314
pISSN - 1581-6613
DOI - 10.3986/ags.5137
Subject(s) - geography , settlement (finance) , creative class , rural area , class (philosophy) , economic geography , rural settlement , regional science , socioeconomics , sociology , political science , creativity , business , computer science , finance , artificial intelligence , law , payment
This paper addresses the key question as to what matters more in understanding the residential location of the creative class in Slovenia: the city-region or the urban-rural framework? Our analysis shows that differences in residential concentrations of the creative class vary more within city-regions (on an urban-rural framework) than between city-regions. Moreover, the creative class is moving out of densely populated urban areas to more sparsely populated suburban / rural areas within all city-regions. There also are significant differences between more developed western Slovenia (denser settlement structures) and less developed eastern Slovenia (sparser settlement structures). We conclude that new models of living promote dispersion.