In the new issue of the magazine The Next American City, Richard Florida, the author of the bestselling book The Rise of the Creative Class – in which Austin plays a prominent role as a model "creative Mecca" – has answered his critics. Or so claims a breathless press release from the magazine, which is based in New York City. "His new work finds that creative regions generate not only more jobs, but also higher salaries, more innovations, and more high tech growth," gushes the release.

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