Eighth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

The issue of creative class has become the topic of recent research, with increasing research on the residential location of creative class. However, a theoretical model in the migration research of creative class has not been established in recent studies. In view of this, the paper provides the theoretical model by applying the general labor migration to the creative class. The theoretical model includes four factors, which are creative class, entrepreneurial space, entrepreneur, and housing. The model uses the spatial economy theoretical model to simulate the migration of creative class. The second part of the paper carries out the empirical analysis of the creative class that resides in six different municipalities in Taiwan. The empirical analysis consists multiple logistic regression analysis. The results validate the conclusion of the theoretical model by showing that the migration of the creative class is affected by the relative utility within cities, which in turn, is affected by housing and entrepreneurial space.