Creative Spaces: an exclusive look inside some of North America’s most remarkable homes with Rana Florida. This corporate director and an internationally renowned entrepreneur, consultant and author, take refuge from Toronto’s cold winters in their Miami Beach condo which is featured as the seventh in this 8 feature series.
Richard Florida’s column in The New York Times on the widening gap between the D.C. economy, with its robust housing and job markets, and the rest of America. What’s the key?
Smaller cities and towns are remaking themselves as hubs for the knowledge economy.Richard Florida points out some surprising destinations from the data of the Martin Prosperity Institute.
National Geographic Traveler interview with Richard Florida. Florida says society’s success is inextricably bound to the success of our great cities. And yet, the growing concentration of
wealth and human capital in urban areas is leading to greater inequality, with a person’s prosperity determined
increasingly by location. Florida explores social and economic trends in his numerous books.
Creative Spaces: an exclusive look inside some of North America’s most remarkable homes with Rana Florida. The home of a local Toronto couple is featured as the sixth in this 8 feature series.
This article written by Richard Florida,
Charlotta Mellander and Kevin Stolarick examines the effects of this intra‐metropolitan distribution on economic
performance. The findings indicate that this distribution matters significantly to US regional performance. Suburban human capital matters more than center city human capital.
Creative Spaces: an exclusive look inside some of North America’s most remarkable homes with Rana Florida. The home of Michael Budman and Diane Bald in Toronto is featured as the fifth in this 8 feature series.
The Great Reset named as finalist of the National Business Book Award. The finalists for this year’s National Business Book Awards were announced by co-sponsors PwC and BMO Financial Group. The award is presented to the author of an outstanding Canadian business-related book published in 2010.
Creative Spaces: an exclusive look inside some of North America’s most remarkable homes with Rana Florida. The home of Gabe Gonda and Victoria Webster in Toronto is featured as the fourth in this 8 feature series.
Creative Spaces: an exclusive look inside some of North America’s most remarkable homes with Rana Florida. The home of Dennis Keefe and John Jordan in Toronto is featured as the third in this 8 feature series.
Creative Spaces: an exclusive look inside some of North America’s most remarkable homes with Rana Florida. The home of Dr. Tina Alster and her husband, Paul Frazer in Washington, D.C. is featured as the second in this 8 feature series.
Creative Spaces: an exclusive look inside some of North America’s most remarkable homes with Rana Florida. The Florida’s home in Toronto is featured as the first in this 8 feature series.
This article written by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Jason Rentfrow examines the role of post-industrial structures and values on happiness across the nations of the world. They argue that these structures and values shape happiness in ways
that go beyond the previously examined effects of income.
Richard Florida has run the latest Gallup numbers on party affiliation, co-relating them with factors of income, religious observance, educational attainment.
Investment in the arts and our own creativity can help navigate the road back to prosperity, renowned economist Richard Florida told attendees of the inaugural Arts Exposed conference at Seneca College in Markham.
Five recent Big Think Books come from brand name authors, each with major capacity to produce and distribute.
This column provides a glimpse of key themes in each of these books including Richard Florida’s, The Great Reset and some analysis of the controversial issues on which the authors agree and disagree.
Fast Company continues its examination of the business book The Rise of the Creative Class with an interview of author Richard Florida.
Jodi Schwan of the Sioux Falls Business Journal interviews Richard Florida. Florida mentions Sioux Falls in his new book, The Great Reset, as a community that might be vulnerable in the financial services sector.
Economic forces, regulatory pressure and the community’s desire for higher-paying jobs have combined to throw the future of the financial services sector into uncertainty. For financial services to thrive in Sioux Falls, a generation’s worth of thinking has to change, according to industry and community leaders.
Fast Company continues its Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from The Rise of the Creative Class (2003) by Richard Florida
Studio, Italy’s new culture and arts magazine interviews Richard Florida for its first first issue about Europe and creativity The interview focuses both on his work as an advisor to the UK government and on his theory of the “creative sector as a growth engine” for as much as it applies to Europe.
El Paso’s Creative Cities Leadership Project officially named the New Texico Creative Cities Leadership Project, was started in August 2006 in conjunction with creative class guru Richard Florida.
Richard Florida on the economic crisis and its effects on work and the workplace.
A recent Richard Florida blog post on The Atlantic’s website argues that Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver have become music industry centres rivalling New York, Los Angeles and Nashville.
Governor Chafee is drawing attention to “The Flight of the Creative Class,” a 2007 book by Richard Florida, a best-selling author and University of Toronto professor who emphasizes the “3 Ts of economic growth: Technology, Talent and Tolerance.”
Transcript of Richard Florida’s on air interview with CNN’s Ali Velshi’s Your Money discussing the impact of government budget gaps.
In this paper, Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Kevin Stolarick examine the effects of satisfaction with individuals’ current location on the decision to stay.
Richard Florida forecasts a new
economic order in the wake of America’s
recent financial crisis in The Great Reset:How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity.
While other celebrities have been content to shill for products, offering themselves as endorsers, Gaga is taking the reins and stamping her indelible mark on said products.
Richard Florida speaks at the BizTech Conference & Expo at the Wilmington Convention Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, January 14, 2011.
Urban planning expert Richard Florida says the planning to make Toronto a world-class city in the same league as Paris or New York in the next 50 years must start now.
In this paper Richard Florida, Robert Wuebker and Zoltan Acs examine recent patterns of venture capital investment which suggest that the venture capital industry is in the early stages of a profound transformation catalyzed in
part by the globalization of igh-impact entrepreneurship. This change in the allocation of early-stage venture investment has important implications for the financing of young firms, the speed of innovation and technological
transformation, and the locus of long-term economic growth.
Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo interviews Richard Florida discussing the way forward for
three major countries where his ideas on creativity are more important than ever – Brazil, the US and the UK.
Italy’s largest financial newspaper interviews Richard Florida on the most important ideas of last decade and what will be that ones for the decade to come.
Richard Florida’s interview with Bulgarian Newspaper, Capital Weekly, the leading political and economic paper in the country.
Looking to meet someone to start the year off right? Richard Florida crunches the numbers for the best cities in America for single men and women to be this New Year’s Eve.
Richard Florida’s, The Great Reset, makes the top business books list of 2010. Florida’s flood of data forms a nice mosaic of snapshots as he explains how the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression morphed the largely rural, agrarian economy and population of the United States into an urban manufacturing powerhouse.
Every kid hopes for a white Christmas with lots of gifts, but some cities are more likely to have it. Richard Florida on the 20 best cities to be a kid on Christmas morning.
Richard Florida, a best-selling author and economic development theorist, says South Florida needs to diversify economically, focus on education and deal with sprawl if it wants to move forward.
In this Chapter of Daniel Araya’s and Michael A. Peter’s book, Education in the Creative Economy, Richard Florida, Brian Knudsen,and Kevin Stolarick argue that the university’s increasing role in economic growth stems from
deeper and more fundamental forces. The university’s role in these forces goes
beyond technology to both talent and tolerance.
Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class, takes a broad look at the current economic crisis in his latest book. Florida starts The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity by examining past economic crises, and how the country emerged stronger from them.
At the Leadership Austin conference author Richard Florida says Austin is a good model for how to get through the economic crisis.
Leadership Austin, a nonprofit offering leadership training programs for the community, invited bestselling author Richard Florida — who wrote “The Flight of the Creative Class” — to the University of Texas to discuss his newest book “The Great Reset.”
”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
