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.
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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.
adminApril 13, 2011
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.
adminApril 13, 2011
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.
adminApril 6, 2011
Richard Florida has run the latest Gallup numbers on party affiliation, co-relating them with factors of income, religious observance, educational attainment.
adminApril 4, 2011
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.
adminApril 4, 2011
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.
adminMarch 28, 2011
Fast Company continues its examination of the business book The Rise of the Creative Class with an interview of author Richard Florida.
adminMarch 25, 2011
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.
adminMarch 23, 2011
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.
adminMarch 23, 2011
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
adminMarch 22, 2011
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.
adminMarch 22, 2011
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.
adminMarch 7, 2011
Richard Florida on the economic crisis and its effects on work and the workplace.
adminFebruary 28, 2011
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.
adminFebruary 18, 2011
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.”
adminFebruary 16, 2011
Transcript of Richard Florida’s on air interview with CNN’s Ali Velshi’s Your Money discussing the impact of government budget gaps.
adminFebruary 8, 2011
In this paper, Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Kevin Stolarick examine the effects of satisfaction with individuals’ current location on the decision to stay.
adminJanuary 28, 2011
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.
adminJanuary 26, 2011
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.
adminJanuary 20, 2011
Richard Florida speaks at the BizTech Conference & Expo at the Wilmington Convention Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, January 14, 2011.
adminJanuary 18, 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.
adminJanuary 10, 2011
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.
adminJanuary 7, 2011
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.
adminJanuary 5, 2011
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.
adminJanuary 5, 2011
Richard Florida’s interview with Bulgarian Newspaper, Capital Weekly, the leading political and economic paper in the country.
adminJanuary 4, 2011
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.
adminJanuary 3, 2011
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.
adminJanuary 3, 2011
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.
adminDecember 22, 2010
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.
adminDecember 14, 2010
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.
adminDecember 7, 2010
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.
adminNovember 30, 2010
At the Leadership Austin conference author Richard Florida says Austin is a good model for how to get through the economic crisis.
adminNovember 29, 2010
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.”
adminNovember 29, 2010
Richard Florida and Steven Pedigo join UT Arlington as visiting scholars in the School of Urban and Public Affairs during the next two years.
adminNovember 29, 2010
Interesting perspective for Miami’s economic future, from bestselling author and economic development expert Richard Florida, who finds market trends reveal a rising of the creative class. While Florida acknowledges the difficulty of our current economy, he also depicts the composition for the possibilities.
adminNovember 29, 2010
Economic development expert Richard Florida visits U of T to discuss his two-year research involvement with the School of Urban and Public Affairs.
adminNovember 19, 2010
Richard Florida speaks at a Leadership Austin event Friday, November 12, 2010.
adminNovember 17, 2010
Outlining his plan to create a rival to Silicon Valley in the East End of London on November 4th, Mr Cameron paid tribute to Richard Florida, an American urban economist, for devising a blueprint for government’s role in the economy.
adminNovember 15, 2010
In this episode, Paul Kedrsoky talks with Richard Florida, delving into themes Florida discusses in his new book, The Great Reset. They talked about the cultural, economic and geographic factors influencing innovative time periods and places.
adminNovember 15, 2010
The pundits say Tuesday’s election was a repudiation of Obama’s handling of the recession, but Richard Florida says the data show something entirely different.
adminNovember 5, 2010
With so many business books being published each month, Investment News is often asked for recommendations. Richard Florida’s, The Great Reset, makes their list of 30 favorite hardbacks published this year.
adminOctober 28, 2010
You may have your costume already picked out, but how does your city rate for celebrating Halloween? Richard Florida crunched the numbers for the ultimate list of the best cities to collect candy.
adminOctober 28, 2010
”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