City-region or urban-rural framework: what matters more in understanding the residential location of the creative class?

Jani Kozina; Nick Clifton

doi:10.3986/AGS.5137

Authors

Jani Kozina Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Anton Melik Geographical Institute http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9438-6877
Nick Clifton Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff School of Management http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8606-7369

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.5137

Keywords:

creative class, knowledge economy, regionalisation, urbanisation, suburbanisation, dispersion, residential preferences, economic geography

Abstract

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.

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Author Biographies

Jani Kozina, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Anton Melik Geographical Institute

Research Fellow

Nick Clifton, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff School of Management

Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Development

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