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Notes1Berridge, Joe. Afternoon Panel Presentation. Art at the Hub Symposium. 20 March, 2008 at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto.2Ibid3Now arguably Toronto’s most posh neighbourhood, Yorkville was the site of a burgeoning arts scene in the 1960s.4Berridge, Afternoon Panel5Florida as quoted in Christopher Dreher. “Be Creative or Die”. Salon ( 6 June, 2002), 10 January, 2010.6Creative Class Group, “Workshops and Services” (), 10January, 20107Florida as quoted in Dreher8Ibid9Ibid10Memphis Talent Magnet Project and Coletta & Company, Technology, talent, and tolerance: attracting the best and brightest to Memphis(, 2003), 10 January 201011See AuthentiCity, Creative City Planning Framework (Toronto: City of Toronto, February 2008) for examples of how thisvocabulary is used.12Jamie Peck. “Struggling with the Creative Class”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 29.4 (2005): 74713It is important to note some recent attempts to reconcile the Creative City agenda with the directive to make servicesaccessible to Toronto’s ‘Priority Neighbourhoods’. In January 2010 the Toronto Arts Council Foundation launched theNeighbourhood Arts Network and in 2009 The City of Toronto’s Cultural Services division published a Community Arts Action Plan.These developments may indicate a more promising direction for Creative City initiatives.14City of Toronto, Culture Plan for the Creative City (Toronto: Toronto Culture, City of Toronto, 2003), 415Barbara Jenkins. “Toronto’s Cultural Renaissance”. Canadian Journal of Communication. 30: 2 (2005)16Culture + Place = Wealth is a subheading in Toronto’s Creative City Planning Framework (prepared by AuthentiCity for the Cityof Toronto)17AuthentiCity 518Florida as quoted in Dreher19City of Toronto, Culture Plan 1220AuthentiCity 321During Bridge of One Hair’s run at the Harbourfront Centre Jumblies ran regular buses to and from Mabelle in Etobicoke toensure that audience members from the community were able to attend.22Peck 74937