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?
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.
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.
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.
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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
Venture Capital, Technological Change, and
Industrial Development by Richard Florida and Martin Kenney.
University-Industry Research Centers, Federal Science Policy and the Research University by Richard Florida, Wesley Cohen and Lucien Randazzese.
Richard Florida, author of “Who’s Your City?” and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, sees the gravitational pull away from Wall Street and toward more creative industries as part of a necessary economic recalibration.
Richard Florida visits Russia this month and discusses the country’s push to develop more of a market-based economy, having abandoned its state-run economy to the historical dustbin as well as drawing upon the similarities between the youth of both Russia and the U.S.
This article by Richard Florida seeks to shed light on the factors that shape the organization of scientific research in profit-seeking enterpises.
The study has explored the factors driving globalization in the automotive industry and has begun the task of exploring the effect of globalization on the quality, quantity and location of jobs in that industry.
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You.
The differing ways a recession affects Ontarians working in different sectors of the economy is the focus of the Martin Prosperity Institute research bulletin presented today to Michael Bryant, Minister of Economic Development, for the Government of Ontario.
The Rise of the Creative Class, one of Gary Hamel’s recommendations that “telescope the future or send our minds racing down new tracks.”
Toronto-based urban theorist Richard Florida believes Ontario’s economy is at a turning point. He was asked by Premier Dalton McGuinty to map a path to long-term economic success.
The relationship between economic growth and a strong arts presence in a community has really been stirred up by Richard Florida’s book The Rise of the Creative Class.
Leading intellectuals including urban planning experts, architects, senior governmental advisors, municipality officials and CEOs of major corporations have been confirmed as speakers for the 2009 edition of Global City being held 7 – 8 April, 2009 at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi.
The first in a series of three columns on The Creative Economy written by Couleur NB President David Hawkins.
Kevin Stolarik who works closely with Richard Florida spends a lot of time thinking about cities, the people who live there and why they live there.
In Who’s Your City, I make an argument about the importance of “place” in the global economy and how it is creating a spiky world…
Restarting economic growth this time around will require a new social and economic framework that is in line with the new idea-driven economy.
Richard Florida and James Milay explore the the effects if a recession hits Canada suggesting that the continuing shift in Canada’s economy from traditional blue-collar, working-class jobs to creative and service jobs will dampen the effects of job losses over all, but those in the working class will feel the pain much more.
According to Richard Florida, jobs are moving to people, not the other way around and our fundamental notions about the economy are not holding up.
Richard Florida warns of an extended period of volatility and conflict in American politics.
Gainesville is frequently described as a creative community by its leaders due to its university, artistic, and technological influences. Who’s Your City? and how it applies to Gainesville.
A municipality can spark the creativity of its community, as well as attract the entrepreneurial “creative class,” by investing in projects that offer a sense of style, place and opportunity for self-expression, Dr. Richard Florida told municipal and community leaders at an event hosted by the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce, the University Partnership Centre at Georgian College, Downtown Barrie and the city.
Richard Florida and Gail Lord explain why cities, and their cultural institutions, are the 21st century’s engines of prosperity.
Richard Florida believes Montreal region’s lumbering government structures are holding the region back. He cited them as one cause of Montreal’s oft-cited immobilism.
Professor Florida makes an impassioned plea, using his first book, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), as a jump start, for the U.S. to retain its stature as an open and welcoming home for talent.
Following up on The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), Florida argues that if America continues to make it harder for some of the world’s most talented students and workers to come here, they’ll go to other countries eager to tap into their creative capabilities—as will American citizens fed up with what they view as an increasingly repressive environment.
Richard Florida’s take on Montreal and it’s position amidst the current economic storm.
Richard Florida speaks at the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 in Detroit, Michigan suggesting market turmoil is a sign of fundamental economic change.
Richard Florida is an expert on the role that cities play in economic growth. In his best-selling books The Rise of the Creative Class, The Flight of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City?, he argues that the strength of the 21st century economy lies in tapping the power of cities as places where creative people live and work.
Great cities speed up their metabolic rate to defy the previous generation’s imagination.
Richard Florida says New Brunswick may be lightly populated and relatively rural, but the province is well positioned both economically and geographically to do well in a continually shifting fiscal and social climate.
”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
