NOOSA and the Sunshine Coast are among Australia's leaders when it comes to attracting and retaining creative talent, according to the findings of a research report commissioned by the Noosa Creative Alliance.
By Richard Florida - July 2005
By Richard Florida, Information Week - Jan 2001
By Richard Florida - Feb 2006
Book reviews by Dr. Albert Mohler
Professor Florida makes an impassioned plea, using his first book, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), as a jump start, for the U.S. to retain its stature as an open and welcoming home for talent.
Leading intellectuals including urban planning experts, architects, senior governmental advisors, municipality officials and CEOs of major corporations have been confirmed as speakers for the 2009 edition of Global City being held 7 - 8 April, 2009 at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi.
By Tyler Cabot, Esquire - Dec 2005
By Richard Florida, Harvard Business Review - Oct 2004
By Richard Florida, Tokyo Business Today - May 1994
By Richard Florida, Across the Board: the Conference Board Magazine - Sept 1994
Denver and Boulder rank high as "cool cities"
In recent years, Florida has carved a niche for himself raising the class consciousness of graphic designers, software engineers, research scientists, business entrepreneurs, writers and academics and assorted other people involved in intellectual forms of work.
If you're a single woman in the Valley, it might be your fault. A new study shows that there are 65,330 more single men than women, age 20 to 64, in Phoenix. In fact, the entire West is awash with single men, according to figures in a new book, Who's Your City? by Richard Florida.
The differing ways a recession affects Ontarians working in different sectors of the economy is the focus of the Martin Prosperity Institute research bulletin presented today to Michael Bryant, Minister of Economic Development, for the Government of Ontario.
Review by Andrew Welsh-Huggins of the Associated Press
This is the first in a series of articles in which The Globe and Mail visits an iconic Toronto neighbourhood or event with Richard Florida.
Novel networking group sees brain drain as valuable resource.
By Marcia Heroux Pounds, South Florida Sun-Sentinel - May 2005
A municipality can spark the creativity of its community, as well as attract the entrepreneurial “creative class,” by investing in projects that offer a sense of style, place and opportunity for self-expression, Dr. Richard Florida told municipal and community leaders at an event hosted by the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce, the University Partnership Centre at Georgian College, Downtown Barrie and the city.
By Richard Florida and Jesse Elliott - June 2005
In this edition of Global Business Peter Day hears from Professor Richard Florida of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Canada, where he’s the Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute.
By Christopher Dreher, Salon.com - June 6, 2002
By Terry Holzheimer and Lauren Hodgin, Arlington Economic Development - Jan 2005
The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S. by Martin Kenney and Richard Florida
By Martin Kenney & Richard Florida - Jan 1993
By Brian Knudsen, Richard Florida and Kevin Stolarick - Sept 2005
Considering your next big career move? In exclusive excerpts from his new book, “Who’s Your City?,” Richard Florida explains why that decision should be all about location, location, location — and profiles the top new regions for great jobs and companies.
Big Think's list of the best business books of 2008
By Richard Florida, Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press - 2002
By Richard Florida and Elizabeth Currid, The New York Times - July 31, 2005
Which cities have a surplus of single men (or women)- and what that means for the country
WHICH OF THESE two decisions do you think has a bigger impact on someone’s life: finding the right job, or finding the right significant other? No one’s going to argue with the notion that where you live affects your employment prospects. But the place you call home has a lot to do with your chances of finding the right partner as well. Having an enticing “mating market” matters as much or more than a vibrant labor market.
WE ARE ALL familiar with the rough geography of the United States — the slash of the Rocky Mountains between two great coastlines, the bulge of Maine, the Florida peninsula, the Great Lakes, set in the heartland. But what about the country’s psychogeography?
By Richard Florida & Martin Kenney - Jan 1992
By Brian Knudsen, Richard Florida and Denise Rousseau
By Richard Florida and Tracy Gordon, Commentary - Summer 1999
By Robert David Sullivan, CommonWealth - July 2005
By Richard Florida, The World & I - May 27, 1993
Memphis, TN had a new kind of blues. Despite its rich history and amenities, and strong economic engines such as the FedEx headquarters, the city was losing annual job earnings, mainly because it could not hold on to young, bright talent. The 2000 census showed that Memphis' population grew by 6,000 since 1995, but its net income had dropped by $90 million.
Throughout and since his successful campaign for Lexington mayor, Jim Newberry has cited the writings of urban studies theorist Richard Florida, whose best-selling Rise of the Creative Class has contributed to a surge of urban revitalization efforts from coast to coast.
Florida maintains that where you decide to live has far-reaching consequences, and as the title suggests, this decision may be the most important one that you ever make.
Richard Florida believes creative people come in all colours and that they are the key to the new economy. If he didn't already have a catchy name, Richard Florida could easily be dubbed Mr. T. His celebrated theory of economic prosperity is based on Four T's. And it was his T for Tolerance that landed the personable American professor in Capital T Trouble when he flew into Noosa last November and media coverage played the gay card.
"Success and contentment may depend as much on choice of location as on choice of spouse or job".
By Michael Storper and Anthony Venables, Journal of Economic Geography - 2004
By Barbara Kiviat, Time Magazine - April 2005
Richard Florida speaks as part of the Alberta College of Art and Design's Stirring Culture series
Richard Florida appears as part of Stirring Culture, the Alberta College of Art and Design's speaker series. In his latest, Who's Your City, Florida explores the idea that mega regions have replaced countries as the primary economic drivers of the global economy.
'Economic Geographer' Richard Florida says location matters more than ever in today's global economy, which is powered by a surprisingly small number of places.
By Richard Florida and Mark Samber, The New Industrial Geography: Regions, Regulation and Institutions - Jan 1999
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You.
By Richard Florida and Lewis Branscomb, book chapter in Investing in Innovation: Creating and Research and Innovation Policy That Works, Lewis Branscomb and James Keller (editors), MIT Press - 1998
Why the place you choose to live is the most important decision of your life
There's more than a grain of truth to the stereotype of the friendly, outgoing Midwesterner, says Richard Florida's Who's Your City?
Given the chance to upgrade neighborhoods, live closer to family or relocate for a better job, many people wouldn't hesitate. Last year, close to 40 million people moved in the United States, according to U.S. Census data released this month.
Author Richard Florida looks at America's "psychogeography" and says personality types tend to cluster—and that understanding those clusters can help us understand the economies and futures of different regions.
“…the most entertaining chapter addresses America's distribution of what psychologists call the "big five personality traits":
By Richard Florida - Nov 2004
By Richard Florida, City & Community - March 2003
Richard Florida has brought big urban thinking to Canada? Will prosperity follow?
By Joseph Cortright, Impresa Consulting - Oct 2006
Entrepreneurship and Innovation - Feb 2003
By Richard Florida, Information Week - Sept 2000
By Thomas Hoffman, Computerworld - May 2005
By Richard Florida - Greater Philadelphia Regional Review - Jan 2000
Meric S. Gertler, Richard Florida, Gary Gates, and Tara Vinodrai
By Richard Florida, Chapter 3 in The Foreign Investment Debate edited by Cynthia Beltz - 1995
Revista de Imprensa 18-04-20081 - Jornal de Negócios, 18-04-2008, "Portugal é formado por dois países: Portugal e Lisboa". 2 - Primeira Página.pt, 17-04-2008, "Guru" da economia criativa diz que Portugal tem sido travado por uma "mentalidade antiquada". 3 - RTP Online.pt, 17-04-2008, "Guru" da economia criativa diz que Portugal tem sido travado por uma "mentalidade antiquada". 4 - Sol.pt, 17-04-2008, ´Guru´ da economia criativa diz que Portugal tem sido travado por «mentalidade antiquada»
By Richard Florida - Sept 2005
By Richard Florida, Washington Monthly - Jan/Feb 2004
By Richard Florida, The Washington Monthly - Jan/Feb 2004
By Sam Youl Lee, Richard Florida and Zoltan Acs, Regional Studies - Nov 2004
By Kevin Stolarick and Richard Florida, Environment and Planning - Nov 2006
Richard Florida notes the world is not 'flat' as we have been led to believe.
Richard Florida asserts in his book The Rise of the Creative Class that today’s regional economic growth is driven by the location choices of creative people, who prefer places that are diverse, tolerant, and open to new ideas.
The 32 local "creative class catalysts," the moniker given to volunteers given to grow a creative class in Dayton and Springfield areas, announced five initiatives for spurring the area's economy
Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” gave an interview recently in which he said great things about Dayton. Florida’s Toronto-based consulting group is working with the region’s creative-class types to imagine, organize and realize initiatives that excite especially young and talented people, but that also make a community a better place for everybody.
If Dayton wanted to impress somebody, it could do worse than Richard Florida. Recently, he gave an interview in which he said: "I was just in Cincinnati and in Dayton, another city I love. They're historical centers of innovation ... from steel innovation to aluminum innovation, to electronics, to the Wright brothers, to the car. This is one of the greatest innovative and entrepreneurial centers in the world. "They have probably one of the greatest clusters of universities in the history of the planet. They're producing phenomenal talent, but, unfortunately, that talent leaves. ...
The Creative Region Initiative was launched with the help of Richard Florida who urges communities to develop a creative class of artists and engineers, musicians and high-tech workers — people who think and create for a living — in order to thrive economically.
The DDN reports on the results of The Creative Region Initiative.
John Grossman's review of Who's Your City?
In January 1992, Carnegie Mellon University undertook a project, in collaboration with the Technology Development and Education Corporation, called "Design for High Performance Manufacturing Infrastructure". The objective of the project was to analyze and invigorate the supplier base and manufacturing infrastructure of Southwestern Pennsylvania...
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, The New York Times, Sunday Business Page - Feb 10, 1991
By Richard Florida and Jeremy D. Mayer - Nov 2006
Richard Florida, Derek Davison, and Matthew Cline, Report to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection - June 1999
By Richard Florida, Information Week - March 2001
By Richard Florida, American Chamber of Commerce, Chamber Executive - Aug 1999
Florida's main premise in Who's Your City? is that the world is, in fact, "spiky," and people make very deliberate decisions about where they live based upon a number of factors.
Marshall Feldman and Richard Florida, Book Chapter in Government and Housing: Developments in Seven Countries. Urban Affairs Annual Reviews no. 36 by Willem van Vliet and Jan van Weesep (editors) - 1990
Richard Florida with his naming of the “Creative Class” has become a popular economist. His talent at forseeing what class has risen and will continue to rise is discussed in The Rise of the Creative Class. At the heart of economics is a city’s center.
Who's Your City? ranks in at 2nd best seller by the West Side Barnes and Noble in El Paso.
El nuevo libro de Florida ... inicia citando a Aristóteles "Si todo lo que existe tiene un lugar, entonces también el lugar tendrá un lugar y así hasta el infinito". Florida nos demuestra una vez más que el mundo no es tan plano como pensábamos.
By Robert Axtell and Richard Florida - March 2006
By Richard Florida, book chapter in Industrializing Knowledge, Lewis Branscomb and Furnio Kodama (editors), MIT Press - Feb 1999
By Richard Florida, Revue Francaise de Finances Publique - 1983
By Richard Florida, book chapter in Entrepreneurship, David Hart (editor) - 2002
In Who's Your City? Richard Florida explains why happiness and the place you live are intrinsically linked.
By Richard Florida and Irene Tinagli - Feb 2004
Florida offers the premise that most people do not put nearly the same amount of effort in choosing where they want to live as they do in choosing a spouse and choosing a career, but that location seems to be more predictive of our all-round personal happiness.
In an exclusive excerpt, the guru of the Creative Class explains the peaks and valleys of the global economy.
Calgary and Who's Your City?
The study has explored the factors driving globalization in the automotive industry and has begun the task of exploring the effect of globalization on the quality, quantity and location of jobs in that industry.
Venture Capital, Technological Change, andIndustrial Development by Richard Florida and Martin Kenney.
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Pittsburgh High Technology - Sept 1988
By Richard Florida - April 2005
Florida’s public policy-makers must recognize that mega-regions are the engines of the newglobal economy. They must support Florida’s mega — the 15th largest in the world.
By Leon Gettler, The Age - March 2005
According to Florida, Toronto-Buffalo-Rochester (TBR) is one of just 40 significant mega-regions in the world.
University-Industry Research Centers, Federal Science Policy and the Research University by Richard Florida, Wesley Cohen and Lucien Randazzese.
By Richard Florida, book chapter in Foreign Direct Investment, in Cynthia Beltz (editor), Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute - 1995
By Richard Florida - Jan 1996
New Hampshire and Maine — from Portland south — are considered the "northern edge" of the 500-mile Boston-Washington, D.C., corridor that Richard Florida, author and professor at the University of Toronto's Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, has found generates $2.2 trillion in economic activity.
Everyone has heard the theory by now: Thanks to the Internet and other high-tech elements of globalization, the world is flat. That is, economic forces are increasingly spread across a world without boundaries, helped by everything from faster transportation to the Web.
Aaron Hotfelder recently interviewed Professor Florida about why the choice of where to live is more important than ever, why it's a decision so often overlooked, and how to find the perfect city for you.
By Richard Florida and Derek Davison, California Management Review - March 2001
The Singles Map
"...personality types are not spread evenly across the country. They cluster..."
In Who's Your City, I make an argument about the importance of "place" in the global economy and how it is creating a spiky world...
The most overlooked — but most important — element of my theory and of the creative economy itself is that every human being is creative.
Fareed Zakaria: The end result will be a “landscape that is quite different from the one we have lived in until now – one defined and directed from many places and by many peoples.”
For the past two weeks, all eyes have focused on Barack Obama and race. A couple of weeks ago, it was Hillary Clinton's gender. A month before that, it was all about the Obama surge among young voters.
"The diversity, of whatever kind, that is generated by cities rests on the fact that in cities so many people are so close together, and among them contain so many different tastes, skills, needs, supplies, and bees in their bonnets."
By Mark Atlas and Richard Florida, Book Chapter in Green Manufacturing, Richard Dorf (editor), Handbook of Technology Management. CRC Press - 1998
Columbia, South Carolina
Nations have long been considered the fundamental economic units of the world, but that distinction no longer holds true. Today, the natural units -and engines- of the global economy are megaregions, cities and suburbs in powerful conurbations, at times spanning national borders, forming vast swaths of trade, transport, innovation and talent.
By Richard Florida and Timoth McNulty, Commentary - Spring 1995
In this paper, the comparative responses of the USA and Japan to the rise of the new high-technology industries are examined. The United States pattern mainly revolves around the rise of high-technology districts like Silicon Valley and Route 128 which comprise dense networks of small entrepreneurial firms and other related institutions.
By Clayton Collins, The Christian Science Monitor - May 2005
Honolulu ideal for empty nesters
Richard Florida (editor), New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research - 1986
By Martin Kenney and Richard Florida, Technology Review - Feb 1991
Luring the creative class, diversity
University of Toronto - Aug 2006
Lewis Branscomb, Fumio Kodama, and Richard Florida (editors) - Cambridge: MIT Press -1999
By Wesley Cohen, Richard Florida, Lucien Randazzese, and John Walsh, book chapter in Challenge to the Research University, Roger Noll (editor), Brookings Institution - 1998
Author Richard Florida argues that for people in creative fields, it’s important to live near each other in order to spark innovation and drive regional economies.
By Martin Kenney and Richard Florida, Growth and Change - March 1994
Richard Florida and Gail Lord explain why cities, and their cultural institutions, are the 21st century's engines of prosperity.
By Ken Adelman, Washingtonian Magazine - Aug 2006
Toward A Consensus Strategy for Federal Technology Policy.
The producers of the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 (CCS2) announced the participation of Dr. Richard Florida as a special lunch keynote speaker for Tuesday, October 14, 2008
By Richard Florida and Irene Tinagli
By Richard Florida and Irene Tinagli
By Martin Kenney and Richard Florida, Futures - April 1989
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, book chapter in Social Reconstructions of the World Automobile Industry: Competition, Power, and Industrial Flexibility, Frederick Deyo (editor), Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press - 1997
The research upon which this chapter is based was undertaken in three parts. The first part involved the compilation of a comprehensive database of transplant assemblers and suppliers in the US...
By Martin Kenney and Richard Florida, World Development - 1994
By Richard Florida, Book Chapter in Financing Entrepreneurs by Cynthia Beltz (editor) - 1994
By Richard Florida and Donald F. Smith Jr., Issues in Science and Technology - June 1993
By Richard Florida, Prevision: Journal of the Japan Association for Management Research - 1994
By Richard Florida
Nur Wissensindustrien sind für die Globalisierung gewappnet: Das hat der Norden begriffen.
“If everything that exists has a place, place too will have a place, and so on ad infinitum." -- Aristotle. It's not very often that the author of a book discussing economics and sociology for a general readership starts with a quote by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. But when the writer is the thought-provoking intellectual Richard Florida -- who claims in his new book, "Who's Your City?," that the selection of where to live ranks as life's most important decision -- it's easier to see why he found Aristotle's quote both appropriate and prescient.
Green space, parks and transit can lift Las Vegas' standing
Ken-ichi IMAI (Director of the Board, Stanford Japan Center), Japanese Institute of Global Communications - March 2004
By Geoff Williams, Entrepreneur Magazine - October 2002
By Richard Florida, The Times of India - Feb 2006
A Report by the Sustainable Economic Development Project. H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Carnegie Mellon University. For the Sustainable Pittsburgh Initiative.
The success of a city depends as much on its ‘personality’ as other contributing factors.
Globalization and technology have created new options of working from anywhere, but that hasn't de-emphasized the importance of where a worker lives. Arguably, place is becoming more important.Reprinted and/or posted with the permission of Daily Journal Corp. (2008)
By Cecil Johnson, Special to the Star-Telegram - April 2005
One of the most interesting and relevant aspects of Who's Your City? is the interdisciplinary nature of Richard Florida's research.
Richard Florida, criador da economia criativa, afirma que barreiras à tolerância e à liberdade de expressãoindividual prejudicam o país para acolher atividades econômicas em larga escala. Lisboa, 17 abr (Lusa) - O criador da economia criativa, Richard Florida, disse nesta quinta-feira que a"mentalidade antiquada" tem sido um entrave para o desenvolvimento do seu modelo em Portugal. O economista norte-americano apontou barreiras à tolerância e à liberdade de expressão individual como principais causadores dessa "mentalidade" no país.
By Richard Florida and Jim Goodnight, Harvard Business Review - July 2005
Featured Story Interview with Metromode
By Richard Florida, Newsweek - Nov 2005
Kevin Stolarik who works closely with Richard Florida spends a lot of time thinking about cities, the people who live there and why they live there.
What matters now is quality of place, defined as the intersection of three key elements of our cities: what's there, who's there and what's going on.
By Kevin Stolarick, Richard Florida, Louis Musante, Catalytix - Jan 2005
By Robert Burchell, James Carr, Richard Florida, and James Nemeth, Center for Urban Policy Research - 1984
This research note is part of a large scale project on the music industry and system.
We assume in an age of globalization that it doesn't matter where you live: Technology allows us to do our jobs from home, be it on a tropical beach or in a rural community. Best-selling author and urbanologist Richard Florida disagrees.
" Who's Your City? is another breakthrough idea by urban life genius Richard Florida. If you are contemplating a move or know someone who is, or are even vaguely interested in the idea of place as self, this book is a must read."
For the first time ever, says author and Toronto University's Business and Creativity Professor Richard Florida, many of us have the freedom and economic means to choose our place — and the opportunity to find the place that fits us best is even more important than choosing a career or even a spouse.
Today on Word of Mouth, writer and researcher Richard Florida tells us why picking a place to live may be the most important decision we ever make.
By Robert Burchell, James Carr, Richard Florida, and James Nemeth, Center for Urban Policy Research - 1984
By Richard Florida, Report for the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC: National Research Council, Committee on Japan - 1998
Discussion of three maps in Who's Your City?
This essay is an excerpt from Richard Florida's article "The Rise of the Creative Class," which originally appeared in the Washington Monthly magazine.
How new 'creative classes' are changing cities around the world.
The Globe and Mail
By Richard Florida, Harvard Business Journal - Feb 2004
A Sustainable Streets program will be launched in Peregian June 28 with the Green Sunshine project rallying participants for the Living Smart Homes Program.
A Youth festival, green sunshine projects, increased success for young businesses, a more vibrant artistic community and communication channels to promote each of them will be put into place in Noosa over the course of the next year.
The Richard Florida inspired Noosa Creative Alliance Catalyst program is making headway with plans to promote creative industries across the Sunshine Coast.
The research that led to this report was commissioned by the Council of Great Lakes Governors in 1992 to provide a fresh look at the competitiveness of the Great Lakes Economy. The goal was to identify strategic areas in which collaboration among business and government leaders could accelerate the economic revitalization that had begun.
Berlin and it's stand with the creative class
Richard Florida on NPR says many of us have the freedom and economic means to choose our place — and the opportunity to find the place that fits us best is even more important than choosing a career or even a spouse.
Florida argues that where you lives affects everything from how much money you make to how happy you are.
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Industrial Relations Journal - Autumn 1991
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, New Technology, Work and Employment - March 1991
By Richard Florida, Technology Review - March-April 1998
“Who’s Your City” is about the places we choose to live and about how we have considerable opportunity to think strategically about this life decision.
Richard Florida ranks St. Lucia 4 out of 5 for best places for retirees to live in new book, "Who's Your City?"
By Richard Florida, The New York Times - July 2002
By Brigid Delaney - Aug 2005
"The party that can bring together the working class and the creative class is likely to build a lasting majority"
By Richard Florida, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Oct 2000
By Richard Florida, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - June 2000
For decades we've heard that new transport and communication technologies - from the street car to the Internet - would make geography and place irrelevant...
Who's Your City? makes Planetizen's Top 10 for 2009
Cities inevitably, consistently, and dispiritingly punch below their weight politically. City-dwellers, as such, have almost no say in national politics, and invariably end up subsidizing the increasingly-anachronistic lifestyles of their rural compatriots.
Richard speaks at global creativity conference - Oct 2004
A new study by a University of Iowa economics professor suggests that Iowa counties with a higher concentration of people who are part of the so-called "creative class" have stronger prospects for economic growth.
Rotman School of Management Press Release for Who's Your City?
By Edward L. Glaeser - 2004
Mason Riddle interviews Richard Florida on Who's Your City?
Following up on The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), Florida argues that if America continues to make it harder for some of the world’s most talented students and workers to come here, they’ll go to other countries eager to tap into their creative capabilities—as will American citizens fed up with what they view as an increasingly repressive environment.
O guru do conceito das cidades criativas. As ideias, a criatividade, a cultura são essenciais para o desenvolvimentoeconómico, diz o americano Richard Florida, que apresenta hoje, naFundação Gulbenkian, a teoria dos três T (tecnologia, talento e tolerância)como chave do desenvolvimento económico das regiões. A Lisboa deixaum conselho: explorar aquilo que a distingue.
As ideias, a criatividade, a cultura são essenciais para o desenvolvimento económico, diz o americano Richard Florida, que apresenta hoje, na Fundação Gulbenkian, a teoria dos três T (tecnologia, talento e tolerância) como chave do desenvolvimento económico das regiões. A Lisboa deixa um conselho: explorar aquilo que a distingue.
According to Richard Florida, "the good life can be found in places like Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Grand Haven, and Holland", Michigan.
By Richard Florida, A report prepared for the Regional Plan Association and the Civic Alliance - April 2002
By Richard Florida, Economic Geography - July 1996
By Richard Florida and Tracy Gordon, A Report prepared for the Environmental City Network and Sustainable Pittsburgh - Jan 1999
By Richard Florida, Chronicle of Higher Education - 2006
By Richard Florida, The Environmental Forum
Dr. Richard Florida, Mark Atlas. H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA
By Richard Florida - Sept 1998
