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The Great Reset Interviews

Newsweek : Blue-Collar Blues

Rather than consign nearly half of the nation’s workers to relatively low-paying jobs, why not use the recession as an opportunity to make over service work into something fulfilling and analytical, hopefully with higher wages? So asks Richard Florida, professor, social scientist, and author. Following the release of his latest tome,The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, NEWSWEEK’S Nancy Cook asked Florida about his vision for “upgrading” the service economy.

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May 18, 2010
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Minyanville : Shrinking the American Dream

We’re going through what University of Toronto urbanologist Richard Florida calls “the Great Reset,” the title of his new book. There is a realization that our consumption-based lifestyle will have to change if we’re to enjoy a sustainable standard of living. Everything is being reevaluated during the Great Reset.

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May 17, 2010
The Great Reset Interviews

Specific Gravity – The Great Reset

As Michael Lewis explained to us yesterday, there is no question we’ve just been through the worst economic crises since the great depression. As we begin to recover, we all wonder what will be different? What lessons will we take away? It should be clear by now that enough has changed that we can’t solve everything just by regulating Wall Street. We will each have to find ways to reform ourselves and our values to reflect the changing economy, strained resources and a new emphasis on what constitutes real value. All of this is what bestselling author, public intellectual and economic development expert Richard Florida calls The Great Reset.

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May 11, 2010
Richard Florida Columns

USA Today : A search for jobs in some of the wrong places

Richard Florida examines how in a broader creative sector, the United States will add 10 million jobs over the next decade. While the U.S. economy will add more than one million computer and engineering jobs, health care and education are expected to generate more than three times as many jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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May 10, 2010
The Great Reset Interviews

The Fiscal Times : A New Name for a New Economy

Richard Florida, author of the new book The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, argues that periods of economic distress can ultimately lead to significant demographic change — and that to capitalize on the changes to come, we need to develop and embrace the creative abilities of our citizens in order to take advantage of a nimble new economy.

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May 10, 2010
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PR Web : In The Great Reset, Professor Richard Florida Shows How the Recovery will Transform Jobs, Housing, Transportation, and the American Dream

In The Great Reset, a new book by bestselling author, professor and economic expert Richard Florida shows how the recovery will transform our jobs, housing, transportation, and even the American Dream. We will rent homes instead of owning them. We will have new forms of transportation and infrasctructure to speed the movement of people and ideas. We will live in more densely populated megaregions instead of what we now call cities and suburbs. The hard road to prosperity will bring new innovations that will change our lives for the better.

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April 27, 2010
Creative Class

Sun2Surf : Attracting the creative class

For those who hold strongly to the belief that cities are the engines of development, Florida’s thesis on the clustering of creative people has provided a concrete path to development. What the urban managers and planners have to do is to attract creative people to their cities.

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April 27, 2010
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The Take Away : Richard Florida on America’s ‘Great Reset’

Even though many economists are proclaiming the “Great Recession” ending or over, the nearly 10 percent of Americans who are unemployed probably find it difficult to imagine exactly what a prosperous, post-recession America will look like. Richard Florida, author of “The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity,” says that’s because the crash has fundamentally altered how we feel about spending and saving. He says we’re all in the process of resetting the way we work and live.

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April 27, 2010
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Urban Land Magazine : In Years to Come New Real Estate Development Patterns will Evolve

In the years ahead, changes in demographics and consumer behavior will drive new real estate development patterns that reflect a trend toward more urban suburbs, according to industry experts at ULI’s Real Estate Summit at the Spring Council Forum in Boston. Well-known analysts Joel Kotkin, Robert Lang, Richard Florida, and Christopher Leinberger offered different views on what’s ahead, but they all agreed that most of the growth in U.S. urban regions will occur not in downtown cores, but in the suburbs.

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April 21, 2010
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New York Post : After the great recession, could New York be the city of the future?

In the post-bust era, Florida envisions more and more Americans opting not to take on car and mortgage payments, choosing the flexibility of renting and the less stressful commutes of mass transit to free up funds for more culture, more experiences, less living space but more ways to express themselves. In other words, America might be ready to take on more of the qualities of another country entirely: New York City.

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April 19, 2010
The Great Reset News Articles

800 CEO Read : The Great Reset

Richard Florida, bestselling author of Who’s Your City? and The Rise of the Creative Class, returns with a much-needed and original vision as we emerge from the economic downturn, illuminating the incredible opportunity our times present for rethinking our future.

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April 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