Discovering Durham

This past Saturday, my mom came to spend the day with me in my college town of Chapel Hill. After four great years at this university and several visits from my family, we've seen just about all this little town has to offer. With the exception of a visit to Duke Gardens, however, we've never really had any interest in exploring the city just ten minutes down the road, Durham. Recently, I heard something about Durham being classified as a particularly "creative" city, and wanted to know more. In his 2012 ranking of the most creative metropolitan areas, Richard Florida ranks Durham first with the data revealing that 48.4% of Durham's workforce is employed in creative occupations. As a soon-to-be graduate hoping to enter the creative industry in the near future, I figured it was worth it to step into enemy territory to investigate what all of this creative talk is all about. We visited two of the "creative districts" of Durham and I've organized my photos according to their district.

American Tobacco Campus

 

Brightleaf Square