Richard Florida’s thought provoking and revolutionary ideas about the future of housing and economic development.
adminFebruary 22, 2009
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Excerpts from The Atlantic’s “How the Crash Will Reshape America: The Winners and Losers.”
adminFebruary 21, 2009
Barack Obama is getting the message from influential U.S. voices that Canada – and Toronto in particular – are models for the American social and economic renaissance the new U.S. president is pledged to bring about.
adminFebruary 21, 2009
Toronto is one of four cities touted as a potentially strengthened survivor of the current financial crisis – along with New York, Chicago and San Francisco in March’s issue of The Atlantic.
adminFebruary 21, 2009
In a time of economic uncertainty and loss of traditional manufacturing jobs, Milton is looking to prepare itself for a new creative economy with its plans for the 450-acre ‘Education Village’. The Education Village will follow the path outlined in the recently released report, ‘Ontario in the Creative Age,’ authored by noted urbanist Richard Florida and Roger Martin, dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
adminFebruary 21, 2009
Amid the global recession, some are predicting the decline of Las Vegas.The most serious-minded articulation of this viewpoint comes from renowned urban studies professor Richard Florida, who wrote the cover story, “How the Crash Will Reshape America,” in the March issue of The Atlantic magazine.
adminFebruary 21, 2009
The DaytonCREATE initiative was launched last year with the help of economist and best-selling author Richard Florida. He urges communities that want to thrive economically to recruit and cultivate a “creative class” — artists, musicians, engineers and high-tech workers, all people who think and create for a living. A number of projects have grown out of the work of Dayton’s creative “catalysts.”
adminFebruary 21, 2009
Blaska’s take on the current financial crisis with reference to Richard Florida and March’s issue of the Atlantic-At critical moments, Americans have always looked forward, not back, and surprised the world with our resilience. Can we do it again? [The Atlantic: How the Crash Will Reshape America]
adminFebruary 19, 2009
In March’s issue of The Atlantic, Richard Florida looks at the potential ramifications of the current economic crisis on our country’s urban landscape and wonders what changes will be brought about.
adminFebruary 19, 2009
With its March 2009 issue, The Atlantic is targeting metro areas with separate covers specifically tailored to their newsstands. The issue features a cover story by urban studies Richard Florida, best known for his work about the “creative class.” The story is titled, “How the Crash Will Reshape America,” and while it points to declines in the suburbs and the Sun Belt, it also reports good news about certain metro areas.
adminFebruary 17, 2009
Spectrum investigates Ireland’s response to its changing ethnic and cultural makeup. Through debate, comment and analysis of the international context, Spectrum explores how Ireland is coping with its new multiculturalism. The programme is presented by Zbyszek Zalinski.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
What makes a community desirable and sustainable? The answer, according to researcher and University of Toronto professor of business Richard Florida is the strength of its creative class.
Roanoke plans to test Florida’s theory by becoming the latest city to try the Creative Communities Leadership Program.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
The Creative Communities Leadership Projects “give emerging leaders the tools they need to generate greater economic prosperity in their region.” In the Spring of 2009, they will be bringing those tools to bear on Roanoke.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
Roanoke CCLP to be launched at a two-day seminar for selected leaders where the Creative Class Group will work with the volunteers to build an understanding of the creative economy, the community’s 4Ts (Talent, Technology, Tolerance and Territory Assets), identify strategic economic goals and develop a framework of projects to engage the Roanoke community.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
Might the crisis roiling the economy reshape the American landscape? Is it a turning point in the country’s social geography? As the economy mends and growth begins anew, what cities or regions will be best-suited to take advantage of the change? Urban theorist Richard Florida has some interesting thoughts on those questions in a major piece in The Atlantic, and his answers are encouraging for Portland and the Northwest.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
In Richard Florida’s recent The Atlantic essay, he proposes that what is bad for financial services firms may be good for artists and psychiatrists.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
Richard Florida’s piece in The Atlantic, “How the Crash Will Reshape America” suggests that the current economic crisis has the potential to remake the country’s economic geography in the same way that the crash of 1873 and the Great Depression did.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
Richard Florida writes a cover story for the March issue of The Atlantic called, “How the Crash Will Reshape America.” His theory is that the recession will accelerate the rise and fall of specific places within the United States, speeding up the fates of some cities and reversing the fortunes of others. Interestingly, he lumps Portland and Seattle with the cities that will fare better than most.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
Florida, who is a scholar and the author of The Rise of the Creative Class, has become semi-famous in recent years for arguing that the U.S. economy is now based on the development and exchange of ideas, and that the best places for that to happen are those that attract and coddle creative, educated people. Places, in other words, like New York.
Florida’s Atlantic piece devotes special attention to New York.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
The Plank’s take on Richard Florida’s article, “How the Crash Will Reshape America,” in the Atlantic Monthly.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
In addressing the current economic crisis, governments should focus on the long term, not demands for quick fixes.
That is the powerful underlying message of the report, Ontario in the Creative Age, jointly authored by Roger Martin, dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and urban guru Richard Florida.
adminFebruary 14, 2009
Urban theorist Richard Florida, author of the global best-selling book The Rise of the Creative Class, said Ottawa “is a world leader” in the ascent of what he calls a new, creative economy. Mr. Florida and Roger Martin, dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, co-authored a 36-page, $2.2-million study urging the province and businesses to boost education levels, wages, training and creativity as a means to a better economy.
adminFebruary 14, 2009
The most recent tragedies in a long list at native reserves might spur an opportunity to use the creative thinking advocated by Richard Florida and Roger Martin to turn our backs on old models and start to build healthy, green first nations communities from sea to sea to sea.
adminFebruary 14, 2009
Most attention focuses on federal efforts to combat the global slump. But provincial governments are equally important. They tax almost as much as Ottawa. In total, they spend slightly more which is why this week’s ruminations from Ontario’s Liberal government are so disquieting.
adminFebruary 14, 2009
A look at report titled “Ontario in the Creative Age,” prepared by a team of 24 researchers and co-authored by Richard Florida and Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, commissioned early last year by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.
adminFebruary 14, 2009
In a series of interviews and scrums, Premier Dalton McGuinty and his Finance Minister Dwight Duncan prepped Ontario for a brutal budget.
adminFebruary 14, 2009
A new provincial report boosts London as a leader in the new economy. Richard Florida, one of the report’s authors, says, “a handful of cities — from London through Kitchener-Waterloo through Toronto and Ottawa — together comprise one of the world’s largest economic mega regions that helps make Ontario one of the most advanced and productive jurisdictions on Earth.”
adminFebruary 14, 2009
A new provincial report has boosted London and backed what its leaders have insisted for years that London can lead Ontario into a new economy.
adminFebruary 14, 2009
Star City Manager Darlene Burcham issued
a call to the community to identify 30 local leaders who hold the key to turning Roanoke into one of the most desirable and sustainable communities in the country as part of the Creative Communities Leadership Program (CCLP), which was launched by the Creative Class Group (CCG).
adminFebruary 14, 2009
History News Network : Roundup: Historians’ Take-Richard Florida: How the Crash Will Reshape America
Excerpts from Richard Florida’s article in The Atlantic, “How the Crash Will Reshape America”.
adminFebruary 14, 2009
As Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty talks about a low-carbon economy as a competitive advantage and jobs disappear by the tens of thousands, a major report called on the province to unleash its creativity to grow the economy. The report, by Richard Florida and Roger Martin of the Martin Prosperity Institute of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, argues that the economy is shifting away from routine-oriented jobs to creativity-based occupations.
adminFebruary 13, 2009
Ontario’s prosperity hinges on harnessing creativity.
The report by Roger Martin and Richard Florida makes as its top recommendation: Harness the full creative potential of Ontarians beyond the creative elite professionals, entrepreneurs and artists.
adminFebruary 13, 2009
Richard Florida has a piece out in the new Atlantic that asks “How The Crash Will Reshape America.” This article shares what Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and admirer of so many things Portland, has to say about where the city fits in a post-crash America.
adminFebruary 13, 2009
Richard Florida’s cover story in the Atlantic is on how the recession will change the geography of America. The winners? “Mega-regions, systems of multiple cities and their surrounding suburban rings like the Boston–New York–Washington Corridor”.
adminFebruary 13, 2009
Florida the urban theorist is making the case in this month’s Atlantic cover story “How the Crash Will Reshape America,” that success will depend on America becoming less like Florida the state, and more like Europe: fewer homeowners, smaller homes, more renters, denser cities, fewer cars. T
adminFebruary 13, 2009
What makes a community desirable and sustainable? The answer, according to researcher and University of Toronto professor of business Richard Florida is the strength of its creative class.
Roanoke plans to test Florida’s theory by becoming the latest city to try the Creative Communities Leadership Program.
adminFebruary 13, 2009
In a partnership with the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto – headed by urban thinker Richard Florida – the city of Toronto will spend $10,000 on an international conference called Placing Creativity this June on “cultural mapping.”
adminFebruary 11, 2009
The crash of 2008 continues to reverberate loudly nationwide—destroying jobs, bankrupting businesses, and displacing homeowners. But already, it has damaged some places much more severely than others. On the other side of the crisis, America’s economic landscape will look very different than it does today. What fate will the coming years hold for New York, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas? Will the suburbs be ineffably changed? Which cities and regions can come back strong? And which will never come back at all?
adminFebruary 11, 2009
Interview with Conor Clarke, urban theorist Richard Florida explains why recession is the mother of invention. Which cities will rise and fall with investment banks and the housing market? Which regions will thrive, and which will start to look like latter-day Dust Bowls?
adminFebruary 11, 2009
As part of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, Richard Florida and Roger Martin delivered a report called “Ontario in the Creative Age,” commissioned by Premier Dalton McGuinty contemplating today’s challenge of moving from jobs oriented to routine to jobs that hinge on creativity.
adminFebruary 11, 2009
A report on the Ontario economy by Roger Martin and Richard Florida says stimulus schemes and handouts may be necessary to prop up the old economy. Our leaders, they suggest, need to capitalize on the current plight to drive home the need to move off the old industrial economy. Start making the big moves to an idea-driven, creative economy based not on goods, but on services. Put the stress on the development of knowledge workers, on research and development, on innovation.
adminFebruary 11, 2009
Richard Florida presents a potent argument for why a few cities are emerging as extremely successful economic powerhouses, while most are in decline. Florida argues that we are now able to choose a place to live from cities around the country and all one needs to do is match a city’s personality and social possibilities with our individual needs and preferences also arguing that these needs can change with
different stages — early career, raising a family and retirement — of life.
adminJanuary 21, 2009
Florida is a leading advocate of developing culturally vibrant communities, saying they attract the ‘creative classes,’ leading to economic growth by building a city where people want to live, play, work and invest. This would be a refreshing direction, one that could add charm and creativity to downtown Barrie, fostering a ‘sense of place.’
adminJanuary 21, 2009
Richard Florida, has urged President-elect Barack Obama to eschew crude investments in traditional production and a renewed housing market in favor of goodies directed to what he calls the creative industry.
adminJanuary 13, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to strengthen the federal commitment to our cities and it’s importance is seen with his creation of a new position, the White House Office of Urban Policy. Along these lines is Richard Florida’s view that the concept of the creative class of workers is a key element of metropolitan stability and progress.
adminJanuary 11, 2009
New Brunswick’s Frye Festival has given residents and visitors to the province a plethora of special events year round helping to make it the type of “creative” city Richard Florida talks about.
adminJanuary 7, 2009
Premier Dalton McGuinty commissioned the report, titled “Infrastructure And The Economy: Future Directions For Ontario” which was recently given to economist Roger Martin and urban theorist Richard Florida, who have been appointed by the Premier to look at Ontario’s economic future.
adminJanuary 6, 2009
Venture Capital, Technological Change, and
Industrial Development by Richard Florida and Martin Kenney.
adminDecember 28, 2008
”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