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Our analysis
of recent development in rural U.S. counties, which focuses
on natural amenities as quality-of-life indicators, supports
the creative class thesis. A repetition for urban counties
also shows a strong relationship between creative class presence
and growth, although natural amenities play a smaller role. However,
our results depend on a recast creative class measure, which
excludes from the original Florida measure many occupations
with low creativity requirements and those involved primarily
in economic reproduction (i.e., numbers proportional to population).
Our measure conforms more closely to the concept of creative
class and proves to be more highly associated with regional development
than the original Florida measure.