{"id":3985,"date":"2011-06-21T17:45:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T17:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2011-06-21T17:45:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T17:45:48","slug":"small_cities_fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3985","title":{"rendered":"Small Cities Feed the Knowledge Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/m.wired.com\/magazine\/2011\/05\/ff_jobsblockbyblock\/\">Adam Davidson<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>Livable cities draw creative people, and creative people spawn jobs. Some places you\u2019d never expect\u2014small cities not dominated by a university\u2014are learning how to lure knowledge workers, entrepreneurs, and other imaginative types at levels that track or even exceed the US average (30 percent of workers). Here are some surprising destinations from the data of the Martin Prosperity Institute, directed by Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative class.  <\/p>\n<p>Case Study: Omaha, Nebraska<br \/>It\u2019s only the 42nd-largest city in the US, but over the past two decades, Omaha has been transformed into one of the Midwest\u2019s most vibrant cultural hubs. Here\u2019s how the rebirth happened, starting in the \u201990s.<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Davidson: Livable cities draw creative people, and creative people spawn jobs. Some places you\u2019d never expect\u2014small cities not dominated by a university\u2014are learning how to lure knowledge workers, entrepreneurs, and other imaginative types at levels that track or even exceed the US average (30 percent of workers). Here are some surprising destinations from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}