Z. Acs, Innovation and the Growth of Cities, 2002.

B. Arthur, ???Silicon Valley??? locational clusters: when do increasing returns imply monopoly?, Mathematical Social Sciences, vol.19, issue.3, pp.235-251, 1990.
DOI : 10.1016/0165-4896(90)90064-E

D. H. Autor, L. F. Katz, and M. S. Kearney, Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol.82, issue.2, pp.300-323, 2008.
DOI : 10.1257/aer.90.2.444

B. Bishop, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing us Apart, 2008.

Y. Chen and S. S. Rosenthal, Local amenities and life-cycle migration: Do people move for jobs or fun?, Journal of Urban Economics, vol.64, issue.3, pp.519-537, 2008.
DOI : 10.1016/j.jue.2008.05.005

T. N. Clark, R. Lloyd, K. K. Wong, and P. Jain, Amenities Drive Urban Growth, Journal of Urban Affairs, vol.24, issue.5, pp.493-515, 2002.
DOI : 10.1111/1467-9906.00134

E. Currid, The Warhol Economy: How fashion, art and design transformed New York's Economy, 2006.

M. Donegan, J. Drucker, H. Goldstein, N. Lowe, and E. Malizia, Which Indicators Explain Metropolitan Economic Performance Best? Traditional or Creative Class, Journal of the American Planning Association, vol.9, issue.2, pp.180-195, 2008.
DOI : 10.1093/jeg/lbm029

M. Feldman, The Geography of Innovation, Boston: Kluwer, 1994.

M. Feldman and P. Braunerhjelm, The genesis of industrial clusters Cluster Genesis: Technology-Based Industrial Development, pp.1-13, 2006.

R. Florida, The economic geography of talent. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, pp.743-755, 2002.

R. Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, 2003.

R. Florida, Cities and the Creative Class, City and Community, vol.4, issue.2, 2004.
DOI : 10.1006/exeh.1996.0021

R. Florida, The Flight of the Creative Class, 2005.

M. Fujita, P. Krugman, and A. Venables, The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions and International Trade, 1999.

E. L. Glaeser, Learning in Cities, 1999.

E. L. Glaeser, Smart Growth: Education, Skilled Workers and the Future of Cold-Weather Cities, 2005.

E. L. Glaeser, Urban Colossus: Why is New York America's Largest City, 2005.

E. L. Glaeser and C. Berry, The divergence of human capital levels across cities, Papers in Regional Science, vol.84, pp.407-444, 2005.

E. L. Glaeser and J. D. Gottlieb, Urban Resurgence and the Consumer City. Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper 2109, 2006.

E. L. Glaeser, J. Gyourko, and R. Saks, Urban growth and housing supply, Journal of Economic Geography, vol.6, issue.1, pp.71-89, 2006.
DOI : 10.1093/jeg/lbi003

E. L. Glaeser, H. D. Kallal, J. A. Scheinkman, and A. Shleifer, Growth in Cities, Journal of Political Economy, vol.100, issue.6, pp.1126-1152, 1992.
DOI : 10.1086/261856

E. L. Glaeser and J. Kohlhase, Cities, regions and the decline of transport costs, Papers in Regional Science, vol.83, issue.1, pp.197-228, 2004.
DOI : 10.1007/s10110-003-0183-x

E. L. Glaeser, J. Kolko, and A. Saiz, Consumer city, Journal of Economic Geography, vol.1, issue.1, pp.27-50, 2001.
DOI : 10.1093/jeg/1.1.27

E. L. Glaeser, . Mare´, and D. C. Mare´, Cities and Skills, Journal of Labor Economics, vol.19, issue.2, pp.316-342, 2001.
DOI : 10.1086/319563

E. L. Glaeser and J. Shapiro, Urban Growth in the 1990s: Is City Living Back?, Journal of Regional Science, vol.1, issue.1, pp.139-165, 2003.
DOI : 10.1016/S0166-0462(00)00069-7

E. L. Glaeser and K. Tobio, The Rise of the Sunbelt, 2007.

P. Hall, Cities in Civilization, 1998.

A. O. Hirschmann, The Strategy of Economic Development, 1958.

J. Jacobs, The Economy of Cities, 1969.

A. Jaffe, M. Trajtenberg, and R. Henderson, Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol.108, issue.3, pp.577-598, 1993.
DOI : 10.2307/2118401

C. Jones, Growth and Ideas. NBER, Working Paper 10767, 2004.

B. D. Jones and F. R. Baumgartner, The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems, 2005.

S. Kim, Expansion of Markets and the Geographic Distribution of Economic Activities: The Trends in U. S. Regional Manufacturing Structure, 1860-1987, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol.110, issue.4, pp.881-908, 1995.
DOI : 10.2307/2946643

B. Knudsen, R. Florida, K. Stolarick, and G. Gates, Density and Creativity in U.S. Regions, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol.88, issue.2, pp.461-478, 2008.
DOI : 10.2307/2555502

P. Krugman, Cites and Geography, Geography and Trade, 1991.

F. Levy and R. J. Murnane, The New Division of Labor, 2004.
DOI : 10.1515/9781400845927

R. Lucas, On the mechanics of economic development, Journal of Monetary Economics, vol.22, issue.1, pp.3-42, 1988.
DOI : 10.1016/0304-3932(88)90168-7

B. Lundvall, National Systems of Innovation: Toward a theory of Innovation and Interactive Learning, 1992.
DOI : 10.7135/UPO9781843318903

C. B. Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke, 1964.

S. Malanga, The curse of the creative class, City Journal, vol.14, pp.36-45, 2004.

W. F. Mazek and J. Chang, The Chicken or Egg Fowl-up in Migration: Comment, Southern Economic Journal, vol.39, issue.1, pp.133-139, 1972.
DOI : 10.2307/1056236

R. F. Muth, Migration: Chicken or Egg?, Southern Economic Journal, vol.37, issue.3, pp.295-306, 1971.
DOI : 10.2307/1056181

G. Myrdal, Economic Theory and Under-developed Regions, 1959.

S. Rauch and C. Negrey, DOES THE CREATIVE ENGINE RUN? A CONSIDERATION OF THE EFFECT OF CREATIVE CLASS ON ECONOMIC STRENGTH AND GROWTH, Journal of Urban Affairs, vol.71, issue.2, pp.473-489, 2006.
DOI : 10.1177/0885412206292259

J. Robinson, Economic Philosophy, 1962.

A. J. Scott, On Hollywood: The Place, the Industry, 2005.

A. J. Scott, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Industrial Development: Geography and the Creative Field Revisited, Small Business Economics, vol.88, issue.1, pp.1-24, 2006.
DOI : 10.1007/s11187-004-6493-9

A. J. Scott, Capitalism and Urbanization in a New Key? The Cognitive-Cultural Dimension, Social Forces, vol.85, issue.4, pp.1465-1482, 2007.
DOI : 10.1353/sof.2007.0078

A. J. Scott, Production and work in the American metropolis: a macroscopic approach, The Annals of Regional Science, vol.1, issue.4, pp.785-805, 2008.
DOI : 10.1007/s00168-007-0194-7

A. J. Scott and M. Storper, High technology industry and regional development: a theoretical critique and reconstruction, International Social Science Journal, vol.112, pp.215-232, 1987.

J. M. Shapiro, Smart Cities: Quality of Life, Productivity, and the Growth Effects of Human Capital, 2005.

J. W. Sonn and M. Storper, The Increasing Importance of Geographical Proximity in Knowledge Production: An Analysis of US Patent Citations, 1975???1997, Environment and Planning A, vol.36, issue.5, pp.1020-1039, 1975.
DOI : 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198290186.001.0001

URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01022386

G. Sternlieb, The city as sandbox, Public Interest, vol.25, pp.14-21, 1971.

M. Storper and S. Christopherson, Flexible Specialization and Regional Industrial Agglomerations: The Case of the U.S. Motion Picture Industry, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol.38, issue.1, pp.104-117, 1987.
DOI : 10.1086/258727

M. Storper, Why does a city grow? Specialization, human capital, institutions. Los Angeles: UCLA Dept of Urban Planning Available online at, 2008.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01023792

M. Storper, Big Structures, Small Events, and Large Processes in Economic Geography, Environment and Planning A, vol.76, issue.138, pp.165-185, 1988.
DOI : 10.1068/a200165

M. Storper, The transition to flexible specialization: the division of labour, external economies, and the crossing of industrial divides, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol.13, pp.273-305, 1989.

M. Storper and A. J. Scott, The wealth of regions, Futures, vol.27, issue.5, pp.505-526, 1995.
DOI : 10.1016/0016-3287(95)00020-W

M. Storper and M. Manville, Behaviour, Preferences and Cities: Urban Theory and Urban Resurgence, Urban Studies, vol.39, issue.3, pp.1247-1274, 2006.
DOI : 10.1080/00420980600775642

URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01021317

F. To¨nniesto¨nnies, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, translated as Community and Society (1957), 1887.

J. Travis and M. Waul, Reflections on the Crime Decline: Lessons for the Future, 2002.

A. Trigg, Consumer dependency, Microeconomics: Neoclassical and Institutional Perspectives on Economic Behaviour, pp.59-84, 2001.

F. Weber, The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century, 1899.

T. R. Wojan, D. Lambert, and D. A. Mcgranahan, Emoting with their feet: Bohemian attraction to creative milieu, Journal of Economic Geography, vol.7, issue.6, pp.711-736, 2007.
DOI : 10.1093/jeg/lbm029