Major urban centres are the sorts of places we would expect to find creative businesses clustered together. Yet go beyond London’s Shoreditch, Manchester’s Northern Quarter, or Edinburgh’s Cowgate, and you can find microclusters of creative firms in places that we wouldn’t necessarily expect them to be.
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