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Designing the Living and Working Space of the Creative Class

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Design of spaces for the creative class is based on supporting creative actions through appropriate formation of space. Personal physio-psychological state, ability to concentrate, ability to think creatively, general well-being, comfort, inspiration and mood are important factors of the creative process. The combination of spatial and psychological studies is the basic necessity in creating spaces for the creative class.

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    The term “creative class” was created and defined by an American economist and sociologist Richard Florida, University of Toronto, by so doing he defined a class, which was the main power force of economic development of post-industrial cities (Florida 2010).

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    Koncepcja twórczości (Creativity concept)—Edward Nęcki.

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    Source: The official website of Cittaslow: http://www.cittaslow.org.

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    Ibidem.

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Bonenberg, A. (2018). Designing the Living and Working Space of the Creative Class. In: Cityscape in the Era of Information and Communication Technologies. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69542-6_6

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