Creativity Makes an Urban Area Click

THE WARHOL ECONOMY: HOW FASHION, ART, AND MUSIC DRIVE NEW YORK CITY. Princeton University Press. 258 pages. $27.95)

She recited annoyances fairly similar to grumblings sometimes heard from Toledo’s own recent college graduates: The restaurants close too early. Not enough street-level culture. Officials seem unmindful to the interests of the city’s young people.

“Future generations want open communities and vibrant neighborhoods, not just downtown malls and new sports facilities,” she wrote, evoking the city planning philosophy of her admired Jane Jacobs as well as Richard Florida, her mentor and former professor whose Rise of the Creative Class became the decade’s influential public policy and planning manifesto.

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