This Decima Research survey asked 2,603 Canadians 15 or older a series of questions about attendance at literary or poetry readings, something that has not been asked by other arts participation surveys in Canada. Overall, the statistics in this repo… View this resource

http://www.acs-aec.ca/Polls/Poll19.pdf (Reading Canada) http://www.acs-aec.ca/Polls/Poll44.pdf (Fiction or Non-Fiction) These short fact sheets provide a limited analysis of the results of a book reading survey of 2,002 Canadians 18 or older. The fir… View this resource

A report prepared for the Department of Canadian Heritage (Competing for Talent: Implications for Social and Cultural Policy in Canadian City-Regions) provides a balanced overview of Florida’s arguments and those of his critics. The report points to… View this resource

Critical Commentaries on the Creative Class In the February 2003 issue of the Arts Research Monitor, we noted that the statistical correlation between educated people, artists, foreign-born residents and technology is not surprising. The technology i… View this resource

A Short Summary of the Theory Richard Florida’s 2002 book, The Rise of the Creative Class, has garnered a lot of interest from arts communities in many parts of the world and has generated a significant amount of speaking and consulting work for Flor… View this resource