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
Our mission is to create more innovative, inclusive and resilient cities
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
Uurbanization leaders are rising to prominence across the spheres of real estate, technology, and sustainability.
As populations rise and the pressure for limited resources increases, smart thinking is needed — in the form of smart cities, which harness technology to fight the challenges of urbanism, whilst maximising its creative and economic potential. UBM identifies the the Top 20 individuals around the globe who are at the forefront of this movement, Richard Florida as number 1.
adminNovember 2, 2012
Income and wealth inequality have risen to record levels in the United States. Even as cities have become the new social and economic organizing units of our increasingly spiky world, their inequalities are approaching levels found in Third World nations.
adminNovember 2, 2012
Richard Florida explores why people—especially talented Creative Class people, who have lots of choices—opt to locate in certain places? What draws them to some places and not to others? Economists and social scientists have paid a great deal of attention to the location decisions of companies, but they have virtually ignored how people, especially creative people, make the same choices.
adminNovember 2, 2012
Florida’s 2002 bestseller, “The Rise of the Creative Class,” has sparked many debates about the relative importance of creativity to the economic health of cities. In his new book, “The Rise of the Creative Class — Revisited,” Florida reiterates, updates and expands on his bottom line: “Cities need a people climate as much, and perhaps even more, than they need a business climate.” Paul Fanlund interviews Richard Florida asking him a series of Madison-centric questions.
adminNovember 2, 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 Bottega Veneta Creative Director, Tomas Maier.
adminNovember 2, 2012
Florida speaks at COSI at the 2012 Innovate Columbus event presented by TechColumbus and the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. Columbus Underground’s Walker had the opportunity to chat with Richard to learn a bit more about how his ideas apply specifically to Columbus, and to preview what we can expect during his presentation.
adminNovember 2, 2012
Property Week’s Claer Barrett interviews Richard Florida on what property developers can expect from
the cities of the future?
adminNovember 2, 2012
Just as Florida modified his book and titled the updated version “The Rise of the Creative Class: Revisited,” the professor at the University of Toronto and senior editor at The Atlantic has modified his own views on suburbia.
In fact, he says he sees more opportunities than ever in American suburbs, many of which are in varying stages of decline these days.
adminOctober 22, 2012
In April 2003, Richard Florida inspired a business audience at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center with an idea that regional economies that encourage diversity, innovation and arts will, in turn, attract smart and more talented people. That will lure more competitive businesses looking to hire such folks.
adminOctober 1, 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 Frank Toskan, the co-founder of MAC Cosmetics.
adminSeptember 27, 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 visionary architect and designer Peter Marino.
adminSeptember 27, 2012
Crain’s talked with urbanist Richard Florida about some of the opportunities and challenges Chicago faces as it tries to remake its economy and shine more light on its technology companies.
adminSeptember 27, 2012
America is famed for its principles of equality — but renowned researcher Richard Florida says conditions have shifted so much nowadays that “the fundamental fact about America is its gaping inequality.”
adminSeptember 27, 2012
For the past year, Richard Florida and his Creative Class Group have partnered with UT Arlington to examine the region’s assets and challenges. The effort engaged representatives from the School of Architecture, the College of Education and Health Professions, and the School of Urban and Public Affairs, with input from major chambers of commerce, local elected officials, Vision North Texas, the North Texas Commission, and civic groups.
adminSeptember 27, 2012
Richard Florida, professor at University of Toronto and NYU, and senior editor of The Atlantic, was in London when he caught up with Adam Leipzig for an interview. His book, The Rise of the Creative Class, transformed Leipzig’s thinking about how creative people work and affect society; the tenth anniversary edition, The Rise of the Creative Class – Revisited, goes even further and helps us understand how to focus our efforts in the coming decade.
adminSeptember 27, 2012
Lee Fisher and Joe Cortright review top summer reads for urban leaders,including Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited.
adminSeptember 19, 2012
In The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited, Florida builds on his original case that creativity is now the “fundamental driver of our economy.” To prove it, he analyzed 350 metro areas using a series of creative metrics to rank the top cities in the nation. Boulder came No. 1 on the list followed by San Francisco and Boston.
adminSeptember 17, 2012
While both presidential candidates are quick to accuse the other of stooping to class warfare, neither will admit how class-ridden America has become. It’s ironic because this widening class divide represents one of the nation’s gravest dangers.
adminSeptember 13, 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 tennis star, Andre Agassi.
adminSeptember 10, 2012
Michael Hill interviews Richard Florida on the release of his latest book, The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited.
adminSeptember 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 modern day super-activist, Jamie Drummond.
adminSeptember 6, 2012
Britannica contributing editor Gregory McNamee caught up with Florida to ask a few questions about the new version of his book, The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited, in which, having crunched the numbers on 300-plus U.S. metropolitan areas, he observes, “Human capital may reflect richer places, but it seems that the creative class makes a place more productive.”
adminSeptember 6, 2012
Rana Florida takes a look at the positive in Detroit, from great universities and walkable neighborhoods, to cultural and natural amenities, the city and surrounding region have a lot to offer.
adminSeptember 4, 2012
High-tech industries have flourished in the suburban office parks that are so ubiquitous in Silicon Valley, North Carolina’s Research Triangle and other “nerdistans.” But in recent years, high-tech has been taking a decidedly urban turn. Drawn by amenities and talent, tech firms are opting for cities.
adminSeptember 4, 2012
Richard Florida, father of the ‘creative class’ concept, finds one at work in his new part-time hometown of Miami, Florida.
adminAugust 24, 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 Chairman & CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, entrepreneur Dr. Peter H. Diamandis.
adminAugust 24, 2012
Florida has published several books on the theme of the creative class including, most recently, The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited, a substantial revision of his 2002 volume.
The thrust of Florida’s thesis is unchanged: growth of creative industries depends on the “3Ts” — technology, talent and social tolerance. But he has refined his arguments and updated statistical evidence.
adminAugust 20, 2012
Ten years ago, Richard Florida published his first book about how creativity was emerging as a common
element shaping America’s economy, geography,communities, and jobs. Now, in The Rise of the Creative Class: Revisited, Florida reveals updated statistics and discusses how the United States has reached a Creative Age that will be the driving force behind its economic recovery. Florida recently spoke with U.S. News about how creativity has pervaded every aspect of Americans’ lives, but has also
caused a new kind of class divide.
adminAugust 20, 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 IDEO’s CEO Tim Brown.
adminAugust 16, 2012
For the past year the Creative Class Group has partnered with UT Arlington to examine the region’s assets and challenges. The joint effort engaged representatives from the School of Architecture, the College of Education and Health Professions, and the School of Urban and Public Affairs, with input from major chambers of commerce, local elected officials, Vision North Texas, the North Texas Commission, and civic groups.
adminAugust 14, 2012
Financial Times review of The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited. This book clears some of the ground for modern reform.
adminAugust 14, 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 former Chicago Mayor Daley.
adminAugust 13, 2012
Transcript for Big Think interview with Richard Florida on the ever-widening gap between creative workers and service workers, and what businesses should do about it.
adminAugust 13, 2012
Richard Florida speaks with U.S. News about how creativity has pervaded every aspect of Americans’ lives, but has also caused a new kind of class divide.
adminAugust 13, 2012
Richard Florida on the ever-widening gap between creative workers and service workers, and what businesses should do about it.
adminAugust 13, 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 American popular culture artist Kenny Scharf.
adminAugust 3, 2012
Florida revisits his book The Rise of the Creative Class and rewrote it to reflect modern times. In The Rise of the Creative Class–Revisited: 10th Anniversary Edition–Revised and Expanded, he explores what social forces brought down the traditional corporate world and led to a rise in the counterculture.
adminJuly 31, 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