This study applies a new methodology using the location of tweets from creatives to study where economic creativity takes place in a city. Based on a Twitter network in Brighton and Hove (United Kingdom), a creative hub, we identify freelancers and entrepreneurs in the creative industries that form the ‘core’ of the ‘creative class’ but have rarely been captured in existing spatial research. We use a comprehensive geodatabase of ‘Points-of-Interest’ and Census of Population residence and workplace locations to match tweets with types of places. Findings show that practices of economic creativity are less spatially clustered in central parts of the city and more spatially distributed across the city than studies that used business register data or cluster approaches suggested. Residential areas, which proxy for home locations, have a high incident of creative activities besides urban amenities and coworking spaces. It is concluded that local economic development should support the creation and maintenance of attractive places of social interactions across the city to foster creativity and innovation which has become even more important with the surge in homeworking due to Covid-19.

这项研究采用了一种新的方法，即利用创意者发来的推文的位置来研究城市中的经济创意发生的地方。基于创意中心布赖顿和霍夫（英国）的Twitter网络，我们确定创意行业的自由职业者和企业家，这些自由职业者和企业家构成了“创意阶层”的“核心”，但在现有的空间研究中很少被抓住。我们使用全面的“兴趣点”地理数据库以及人口居住和工作场所位置普查，以将推文与场所类型进行匹配。研究结果表明，与使用商业登记数据或集群方法进行的研究相比，经济创造力的实践在城市中心地区的空间分布较少，而在城市范围内的分布则更大。代表住家位置的居住区，除了城市便利设施和共享办公空间外，还有很多创造性活动。结论是，地方经济发展应支持在全市范围内创建和维护吸引人的社交互动场所，以培养创造力和创新力，由于Covid-19导致的家庭作业激增，这一点变得更加重要。