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The book, The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure and Everyday Life, has placed the recruitment and retention of the so-called “creative class,” at the forefront of city planning.
adminApril 22, 2013
On Wednesday, April 17, just 48 hours after the terrible events in Boston, the Senate failed to pass the Manchin-Toomey amendment to the Senate’s gun control bill, which mandated background checks on firearm purchases via the Internet and gun shows.
adminApril 22, 2013
Richard Florida heralds successful cities as those that attract and keep a creative citizenry. Toronto is a perfect
manifestation of his “Three T’s” index of good city building: technology,
tolerance, and talent. Author Katrina Onstad takes a closer look at how the Three T’s of Toronto play out on the
streets, so invites five local “creative class” guides to show her the
neighborhoods they love.
adminApril 17, 2013
The debate over a casino in downtown Toronto is coming to a head. When all is said and done, gambling is one of the most regressive ways to generate public revenue and one of the least productive uses of money imaginable.
adminApril 17, 2013
Many employers spend millions of dollars to upgrade their technology and software but skimp when it comes to providing their employees with formal skills development, apprenticeships, on-the-job learning, ongoing education, and other programs. They’re making a big mistake.
adminApril 10, 2013
The nascent turnround in Detroit offers a model from which other cities can learn, writes Richard Florida
adminApril 10, 2013
Richard Florida is the day’s last speaker at the London Conference, an annual gathering of influencers to debate the city’s challenges and opportunities, in November 2012.
The author of The Rise of the Creative Class has been cited — by such diverse figures as David Cameron and Bono — as an expert on how cities must evolve.
adminApril 10, 2013
The dustbin of history is littered with dire predictions about the effects of technology. They frequently come to the fore in periods in which economies and societies are in the throes of sweeping transformation—like today.The key to a broadly shared prosperity lies in new social and economic arrangements that more fully engage, not ignore and waste, the creative talents of all of our people.
adminMarch 25, 2013
In honor of the first day of spring, Rana Florida has gathered some key tips on how you can upgrade your springtime festivities. Whether entertaining a small group of friends at home or planning a major event, these simple style, design and culinary insights offer just what you need to make any occasion that much more special.
adminMarch 20, 2013
Omaha’s quality of living appeals to what Richard Florida calls the ‘Creative Class’.
adminMarch 11, 2013
Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class” discussed the city’s Downtown-area growth and urged regional transit development in a speech at the Detroit Policy Conference.
adminMarch 7, 2013
Mapping Toronto’s gun deaths reveals the same convergence of poverty and violence we associate with U.S. cities
adminMarch 7, 2013
Paris Fashion Week is in its final leg. From high-heeled boots to glittery eyes, from utility belts to studded leather cone-bra shirts, the world’s best designs have been strutting down the catwalks in the Tuileries Garden. The styles all vary but one star has been shining bright through it all, and that is Instagram.
adminMarch 7, 2013
A look at the key for cities and communities figuring out what they do best as part of the bigger system of metros and mega-regions in their part of the world.
adminMarch 7, 2013
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s recent decree abolishing telecommuting is a gigantic step backward at an important time for women.
adminFebruary 26, 2013
Rana Florida conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, relationships, their careers and more. This week’s conversation is with Amanda Burden.
adminFebruary 22, 2013
Start-Up City: Miami, a conference looking at how Miami can become a nebula for technology start-ups is taking place the New World Center on Miami Beach.
adminFebruary 18, 2013
While governments try triggering growth through stimulus spending and/or tax cutting, Florida said what’s going to get us out of the current economic “crisis” are cities “restructuring the way we live and work.” He calls it a “geographic fix,” in which the highly mobile creative types are drawn to the urban areas they love by the types of amenities offered, by public and park gathering spaces and by a community’s walkability.
adminFebruary 18, 2013
While there is much to applaud about the recent revival of American industry, manufacturing is simply insufficient to help revive lagging industrial regions or power the job creation the nation so badly needs.
adminFebruary 18, 2013
A day-long forum, Start-Up City: Miami led by Richard Florida explored ways to build an innovation hub in South Florida.
adminFebruary 18, 2013
Organized by influential urbanist and author Richard Florida, Start-Up City: Miami will feature talks by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and AOL co-founder Steve Case on Wednesday, Feb. 13.
adminFebruary 15, 2013
Richard Florida on NPR with Steve Inskeep discussing who wins and who loses as the highly skilled, creative class clusters around certain metro areas.
adminFebruary 7, 2013
Rana Florida conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, relationships, their careers and more. This week’s conversation is with Sir Ken Robinson.
adminFebruary 5, 2013
For Prof Florida, Abu Dhabi’s future economic success will be determined not by the efforts that it has made thus far, although he admits these have provided an essential foundation, but by its success in attracting and retaining members of an increasingly global and internationally mobile group of knowledge-based workers he has dubbed the “Creative Class”.
adminFebruary 4, 2013
A “Great Reset”—the structural change following crisis—is underway. And there are some indicators of how metropolitan areas are evolving through a time of historic upheaval.
adminFebruary 4, 2013
Richard Florida discusses President Obama’s ambitious proposal for the his second term: Create a new federal Department of Cities.
adminFebruary 4, 2013
Atlantic magazine and Richard Florida, the author, urban affairs expert and a part-time South Florida resident, announced they are bringing a one-day conference called Start-up City: Miami to Miami Beach on Feb. 13 to explore how to build a tech hub here, building on the area’s success with the arts and urbanization.
adminJanuary 29, 2013
The Atlantic will launch Start-up City: Miami, the inaugural event in a new series of day-long programs exploring the emerging models of “urban tech” taking root in cities around the world. The free event is produced in partnership with the Creative Class Group and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
adminJanuary 17, 2013
Thomas Frey shares eight shocking statements made in 2012, judged to be trend-setters for 2013 and beyond and discusses briefly how they will invariably shift our outlook on the future.
adminJanuary 7, 2013
Rana Florida conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, relationships, their careers and more. This week’s conversation is with David Stark, President and Creative Director of David Stark Design and Production.
adminJanuary 7, 2013
The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was the deadliest elementary school shooting in American history. Every single mother, every single father, every teacher, every brother and sister, every single person who cares about our children and their safety must take a stand and demand action from our senators and congressmen on stronger gun legislation now.
adminDecember 19, 2012
Entrepreneurial high-tech start-ups have taken an urban turn. Nowhere is this shift more apparent than New York City, which has emerged as the nation’s second-largest center of venture capital-financed high-tech start-ups, thanks to Google’s significant presence in the old Port Authority building in Chelsea and companies ranging from Foursquare to burgeoning tech-fashion players like Rent the Runway, Warby Parker, and Gilt Groupe.
adminDecember 19, 2012
The professors on this list are all respected in their fields, successful in business and research, and highly active in the online community. They are working to make web-based communication technology an integral part of the lifelong learning experience for their students and anyone else who wants to tune in.
adminDecember 12, 2012
Who are the thinkers that shape discourse on the future of business and society? For the first time, the “Thought Leader Map” displays the names that set trends in the market of ideas with Richard Florida ranked #1.
adminDecember 10, 2012
Rana Florida conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, relationships, their careers and more. This week’s conversation is with multi-platinum-selling singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress Nelly Furtado.
adminDecember 10, 2012
Rob Ford’s downfall is stunning – and it opens up a bigger can of worms for Toronto’s future than even his contentious mayoralty did. In the short term, there are some daunting questions: Will he leave office in two weeks as ordered for violating conflict-of-interest rules? His lawyers have filed a request for a stay pending an appeal. If Mr. Ford does step down, will city council appoint his successor or will there be a by-election? If there’s an election, will Mr. Ford’s name be “the first one on the ballot”?
adminDecember 4, 2012
Toronto is at a crossroads, according to Richard Florida. In an interview with with Global News, he talks about how he thinks Ford has changed the city, and affected Toronto’s global reputation.
adminDecember 3, 2012
Rana Florida conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, relationships, their careers and more. This week’s conversation is with world famous contemporary art collector, Mera Rubell.
adminDecember 3, 2012
Rana Florida conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, relationships, their careers and more. This week’s conversation is with management guru, Don Tapscott.
adminNovember 26, 2012
As we move into a spiky world dominated by cities, the winners and losers are becoming ever clearer. Cities show dramatic geographic divides by class, and some American metros have levels of inequality comparable to those in the poorest nations in the world. And the economic crisis and Great Recession has only compounded this situation.
adminNovember 26, 2012
Richard Florida speaking Friday, November 16th at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Jacksonville University College of Fine Arts.
adminNovember 13, 2012
On Friday, November 9, Richard Florida, best-selling author of The Rise of the Creative Class, which was recently released in a newly revised and expanded 10th-anniversary edition; The Great Reset; and Who’s Your City?, will deliver his first major address at the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS), to launch a major new research initiative on the future of the New York economy.
adminNovember 8, 2012
As one of the world’s richest cities, New York has an obligation not just to rebuild but to show the world how to rebuild the right way — smarter, greener, more resilient than ever. New York is the very definition of resilience. It has absorbed several body blows in the past decade and bounced right back — the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the financial collapse of 2008 and now Hurricane Sandy.
adminNovember 7, 2012
Creative Spaces: an exclusive look inside some of North America’s most remarkable homes with Rana Florida. This edition features a vibrant Toronto penthouse.
adminNovember 7, 2012
Rana Florida conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, relationships, their careers and more. This week’s conversation is with one of France’s — and the world’s — most innovative chefs, Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
adminNovember 5, 2012
Richard Florida examines a new vision for Toronto. The city’s great period of growth won’t continue if we don’t enlist the best and brightest minds from Bay Street, the universities and the public sector.
adminNovember 5, 2012
What does it take to revitalize Atlantic City and other places hit hard by the recession, the housing-market collapse and the vanishing manufacturing industry? Economist Richard Florida answers by looking at how this market upheaval differs from others in American history.
adminNovember 5, 2012
”The Creativity index appeared to be one of the best metrics to understand sales performance at Cirque. And correlation are strong, therefor we will be now using this metric to anticipate sales performance and better forecast.
Alexandre AlleMarket Insight Advisor, Cirque du Soleil