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Urban creativity has established a feature of the urban policy agenda since the 2000s. The aim of this article is to examine the impacts of urban creativity on urban economic development taking into account the Florida's 3T (technology, talent and tolerance). Multiple regression technique was employed to analyze the relationship between urban creativity and economic development indices using data taken from 83 cities including 7 metropolitan cities. The results show that the creative class and Bohemian indices play a positive role in manufacturing wage change and a positive and statistically significant relationship exists between the human capital index and the employment rate change. The high-tech, Bohemian, multi-cultural indices are, however, negatively associated with the employment rate change. The results also indicate that not only is improving city image but establishing a creative milieu and urban identity required to attract educated, talented and creative individuals as well as "Bohemians" in order to sustain a high level of economic development in urban areas.