Richard Florida’s interview with German online magazine, Manager Magazin’s Henrik Müller.
adminOctober 26, 2010
Our mission is to create more innovative, inclusive and resilient cities
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal by Richard Florida examines the changing demographics of cities. Florida’s article points out that many of the cities we have typically called suburbs are transforming themselves from sprawling, car-centric and far-flung places into compact, transit-oriented, and walkable communities.
adminOctober 25, 2010
From California to Virginia, Richard Florida ranks the most innovative states in the country to find out where good ideas are generating economic growth.
adminOctober 21, 2010
From California to Virginia, Richard Florida ranks the most innovative states
in the country to find out where good ideas are generating economic growth. California and Massachusetts rank 1st and 2nd on our new list of America’s most innovative states.
adminOctober 21, 2010
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.
adminOctober 21, 2010
Academic and best-selling author, Richard Florida, has long been documenting how creativity is revolutionizing the global economy. His new book, The Great Reset, says our post-crash prosperity depends on it all the more. One of the critical things for Ireland will be developing strategies and approaches that continue to harness the creativity and innovation of the entire workforce.
adminOctober 20, 2010
Barcelona has always been as commercial as it is creative. The city of Gaudi and Miro and the young Picasso is also a center of textile, chemical, pharmaceutical, and automotive manufacturing, publishing, finance, telecommunications and information technology, of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. It’s this combination that the city and region can build on to survive and prosper through the economic crisis and Great Reset. (Spanish version)
adminOctober 20, 2010
We need to recognize that a whole new economy and society based upon creativity and innovation is emerging and that, as a consequence, it is of vital importance that we reinvent our communities, our schools, our businesses, our government to meet the challenges such major structural shifts present.
adminOctober 19, 2010
Barcelona has always been as commercial as it is creative. The city of Gaudi and Miro and the young Picasso is also a center of textile, chemical, pharmaceutical, and automotive manufacturing, publishing, finance, telecommunications and information technology, of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. It’s this combination that the city and region can build on to survive and prosper through the economic crisis and Great Reset.
adminOctober 13, 2010
In his latest book, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, Richard Florida explains how new ways of living and working will drive post-crash prosperity.
adminOctober 11, 2010
Remaking our sprawling suburbs, with their enormous footprints, shoddy construction, hastily put up infrastructure, and dying malls, is shaping up to be the biggest urban revitalization challenge of modern times—far larger in scale, scope and cost than the revitalization of our inner cities.
adminOctober 11, 2010
In his new book, The Great Reset: how new ways of living drive post-crash prosperity, Florida goes beyond economics in his analysis of the affects of global financial crisis. His work is built around the theory of ‘spatial fix’ advanced by neo-Marxist geographer David Harvey in mid-1970s, to describe how capitalism resolves inner crises through geo-graphical restructuring.
adminSeptember 24, 2010
LA is the place where people come to create and innovate. That’s what Richard Florida is pointing out in his research on artists and cultural “creatives” in his Atlantic blog.
adminSeptember 17, 2010
The D.C. area will continue to be an area of significant job growth according to recent detailed statistical analysis first reported at The Daily Beast from Richard Florida.
adminSeptember 3, 2010
Nearly one in four American homeowners are now underwater on their mortgage. Richard Florida crunches the numbers to find the 20 cities with the biggest debt and housing problems.
adminAugust 31, 2010
Entrepreneurial communities grow up around smart people. Richard Florida, one of the most thoughtful writers and thinkers about entrepreneurial communities, recently identified Boulder as the “brainiest city in the US.”
adminAugust 31, 2010
President Obama tries to be optimistic, but concedes that the Great Recession won’t go away fast. Others compare it to the Great Depression as a signal of momentous economic change. Also, scientists decry ruling halting embryonic stem cell research. On Reporter’s Notebook, are interest rates on credit cards going in the wrong direction?
adminAugust 30, 2010
Reconstructing the Icelandic economy will take more than increased fishing quotas. More than a new aluminium smelter. It will require a new way of thinking. Professor Florida coined the term ‘the creative class’ to identify a socio-economic class of people that he believes will drive economic growth in modern societies through creativity.
adminAugust 29, 2010
Richard Florida is back with a good piece in the New Republic titled Roadmap to a High Speed Recovery. There, Florida opines that America needs to stop subsidizing what he calls the “auto-housing-suburban complex.”
adminAugust 29, 2010
“The Great Reset” is the title of sociologist and economic development guru Richard Florida’s latest opus, a sobering look at how the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression may change how we live, work and travel for decades to come.
adminAugust 29, 2010
As the manufacturing economy ‘resets’ to knowledge and service, firms who unlock their workforce’s creative potential will be the winners, says author Richard Florida.
adminAugust 29, 2010
Where do the biggest brainiacs in America live? Richard Florida crunches the numbers to figure out the smartest cities in the country.
adminAugust 29, 2010
Wondering where the jobs of the future are going to be? Richard Florida crunched the numbers to create a list of the American cities with the fastest-growing job markets, from New York to Durham to Bethesda.
adminAugust 13, 2010
Florida’s newest book, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, looks beyond today and fast-forwards us to tomorrow.
adminAugust 12, 2010
The fiscal and monetary fixes that have helped mature industrial economies like the United States get back on their feet since the Great Depression are not going to make the difference this time. Mortgage interest tax credits and massive highway investments are artifacts of our outmoded industrial age; in fact, our whole housing-auto complex is superannuated.
adminAugust 12, 2010
Richard Florida, author of the new book “The Great Reset” speaks at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival about how new ways of living and working can create a post-recession prosperity.
Florida is the author of the bestseller, “The Rise of the Creative Class,” which received the Washington Monthly’s Political Book Award and was cited as a major breakthrough idea by Harvard Business Review. He also wrote, “Who’s Your City?” in which he argues that where we live is becoming increasingly important.
adminAugust 5, 2010
Kai Ryssdal talks to Richard Florida, the author of “The Great Reset.” Florida isn’t so sure the recovery is upon us just yet, but rather a “generational shift” towards a better financial and social system.
adminAugust 5, 2010
Drawing on data from the Brookings Institution, urban studies guru Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” collaborated with colleague Charlotta Mellander and their team at Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute to come up with the analysis, which put Austin at No. 10 among the cities with the most brainpower.
adminAugust 5, 2010
In a Q&A with Richard Florida and in his latest book, “The Great Reset,” he talked about how housing is going to change and become a more reasonable part of our budgets. Beyond tanking housing values (and foreclosures) that we see all around us, how exactly is that going to work? Here are the extended outtakes from the interview on the subjects of housing, organic food and the need for more good data.
adminAugust 5, 2010
Author and Futurist Richard Florida Predicts a More Urban, Creative and Service-Focused Market.
adminAugust 5, 2010
Which cities have the most immigrants and foreign born citizens in America? Richard Florida and his team crunch the numbers to come up with a surprising list and explore why these cities benefit from high immigrant populations.
adminAugust 4, 2010
Richard Florida’s, The Great Reset, provides “great” reading that will keep you absorbed for the foreseeable future.
adminAugust 3, 2010
Dramatic change has come to the Blue States of the Northeast, once Republican bastions turned solidly Democratic.
adminJuly 20, 2010
From the obvious (San Francisco) to the surprising (Columbus), Richard Florida and Gary Gates crunched the numbers to come up with the gayest cities in the country.
adminJuly 20, 2010
Urbanist Richard Florida charts the progress of the long depression of the late 19th century and the great depression of 1930s from pain austerity through to opportunity and eventual recovery.
adminJuly 19, 2010
Richard Florida looks at the big patterns that emerged from calamitous economic downturns in the past — the deep and prolonged depressions of the 1870s and 1930s — in his book The Great Reset.
adminJuly 19, 2010
Does living out beyond fit into Richard Florida’s thinking on the great reset he claims our society is starting to experience?
adminJuly 19, 2010
To Californians weary of reports of government insolvency, soaring unemployment and foreclosure nightmares, economic development expert Richard Florida has somewhat of a sunny forecast.
adminJuly 19, 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