Creative classes are remodelling our urban fabric

摘要

In the mid-1990s, the late Honor Chapman - my boss at London's nascent inward-investment agency - asked me to follow a hunch. We commissioned a study into the scale of London's creative industries and their capacity to drive inward investment. It illustrated the depth, breadth and international primacy of London's creative economy. From advertising and architecture to film and publishing, London was in a league of its own.