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Forbes : Small Cities’ Big Role In Reinventing The Economy

This post is part of a new special section called “Reinventing America.” As part of this effort, Micheline Maynard and more than a dozen other Forbes contributors and staff writers focus attention on the challenges facing towns, cities and traditional industries across the nation–and highlight the growing number of surprising success stories. Richard Florida, the author of The Rise of The Creative Class, recently looked at where these knowledge-focused jobs are for a new version of his book, The Rise of The Creative Class, Revised.

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July 18, 2012
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The Huffington Post : The Creative Compact

Excerpted with permission from The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited: 10th Anniversary Edition, by Richard Florida. The tectonic upheavals our economy is enduring are the result not just of financial shenanigans by the global One Percent, but of a deeper and more fundamental shift — the passing of the old industrial order as it gives way to the emerging Creative Economy. If we wish to build lasting prosperity we cannot rely on market forces and the Invisible Hand alone to guide us. The grand challenge of our time is to invent new institutional structures that will guide the emergence of a new economic order, while channeling its energies in ways that benefit society as a whole.

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July 12, 2012
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New York Daily News : Wanted: Working class jobs

Richard Florida on how to help lower-income New Yorkers climb the city’s increasingly slippery economic ladder. Behind New York’s encouraging news is a troubling trend: Huge numbers of middle and especially lower income
people continue to struggle. To complete its transition, New York must develop strategies that enable many more of its workers to benefit from the ongoing transformation of its economy.

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July 10, 2012
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The Huffington Post : Your Start-Up Life: Do Team Building Retreats Ever Work?

Thursdays at the Huffington Post, Rana Florida, CEO of The Creative Class Group, shares her conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, personal lives, careers, and more. She also answers readers’ questions about how they can optimize their lives. This week’s question about is about team building retreats.

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July 3, 2012
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Silicon Hills News : Austin Ranks #5 on Richard Florida’s List of Top High Tech U.S. Cities

In Richard Florida’s new book The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited, he’s compiled a list of the top tech cities in the U.S.Seattle, home to Microsoft and Amazon, claims the top place from Silicon Valley, which ranked first in his last book. Silicon Valley, which consists of the San Jose metro area, ranks second followed by the greater San Francisco area. Portland, Oregon claims the fourth spot followed by Austin.

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June 29, 2012
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Salon : Class decides everything

This article was adapted from Richard Florida’s new book “The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited” from Basic Books. His nitial research over a decade ago identified the rise of the creative class as a key factor in America’s cities and economy overall. What has struck him since is that the effects of class are not just limited to cities, jobs and the economy. Class increasingly structures virtually every aspect of our society, culture and daily lives — from our politics and religion to where we live and how we get to work, from the kind of education we can provide for our children to our very health and happiness.

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June 25, 2012
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Urban Land Magazine : Ingenuity is Revolutionizing the Global Economy, Richard Florida tells ULI Europe

Richard Florida named a senior visiting fellow for the Urban Land Institute (ULI). The institute, with nearly 30,000 members worldwide, is a nonprofit education and research institute dedicated to responsible land use and the creation of thriving communities around the globe. As a ULI senior visiting fellow, Florida will speak at four of the institute’s major meetings, collaborate with ULI members and staff, and contribute content and thought leadership to ignite dialogue and discussion on city building. His first presentation in this role was on Wednesday, May 30, at ULI Europe’s “Creating a Legacy” real estate trends conference in London, which explored the long-term investment and development opportunities related to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

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June 12, 2012
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The Huffington Post : Your Start-up Life: Designing the Perfect Office

Thursdays at the Huffington Post, Rana Florida, CEO of The Creative Class Group, shares her conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, personal lives, careers, and more. She also answers readers’ questions about how they can optimize their lives. This week’s question about designing the perfect office.

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June 8, 2012
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The Huffington Post : Your Start-Up Life: World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, Zaha Hadid on the Struggle to Succeed

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 renowned architect and designer Zaha Hadid, one of Forbes magazine’s “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” and Time’s “100 People Who Most Affect Our World.”

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June 8, 2012
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The Huffington Post : Your Start-up Life: Best Business Books to Groom Your Team

Thursdays at the Huffington Post, Rana Florida, CEO of The Creative Class Group, shares her conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, personal lives, careers, and more. She also answers readers’ questions about how they can optimize their lives. This week’s question examines the best business books.

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May 25, 2012
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The Huffington Post : Your Start-Up Life: How to Get Flexibility at Work?

Thursdays at the Huffington Post, Rana Florida, CEO of The Creative Class Group, shares her conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, personal lives, careers, and more. She also answers readers’ questions about how they can optimize their lives. This week’s question discusses getting more flexibility at work.

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May 24, 2012
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The Huffington Post : Your Start-Up Life: When Is it Time to Fire Someone?

Thursdays at the Huffington Post, Rana Florida, CEO of The Creative Class Group, shares her conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, personal lives, careers, and more. She also answers readers’ questions about how they can optimize their lives. This week’s question about when to fire someone.

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May 24, 2012
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The Huffington Post : Creative Spaces: Schools That Don’t Suck!

In this newest installment of our Creative Spaces series, we have scoured the world to find schools that truly celebrate and inculcate creativity — whether through their design and architecture, art or music programs, or new ways of thinking. We decided to stick to public schools since most private schools charge high enough tuitions to create complete utopias if they wish.

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April 26, 2012
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NJ Spotlight : Opinion: How People, Places Can Shape Economic Growth

New Jersey’s economic growth strategy should hone in on strategies that address the desires of people, and the needs of business, all within the framework of creating great places.
New Jersey has a lot to learn from thought leaders such as Richard Florida, creator of the Creative Capital Theory of economic growth.

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April 10, 2012
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The Dallas Morning News : Richard Florida and James Spaniolo: North Texas is stronger together

North Texas will be more competitive and its economic future stronger by
working together.The University of Texas at Arlington and the Creative Class Group have been leading an
effort involving regional stakeholders including major chambers of commerce; local elected officials; Vision North Texas; community and civic groups; and UTA faculty, staff and students to help to inform a broad conversation about the path toward a sustainable, shared prosperity.

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April 5, 2012
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Dallas News : Regional cooperation urged in Dallas-Fort Worth

The gathering, “Stronger Together: An Interactive Conversation About Our Region,” brought together experts from the public and private sectors, along with
educators, journalists and artists, to discuss and occasionally debate issues of growth and economic development in the Dallas Fort-Worth area.

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April 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