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.
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
Richard Florida’s interview with German online magazine, Manager Magazin’s Henrik Müller.
adminOctober 26, 2010
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
Florida points out that the sorts of service-sector jobs the U.S. is on track to create the most of in coming years—for home health aides, customer service workers, food preparers, retail sales clerks—don’t necessarily pay all that well, and certainly not as well as the manufacturing jobs they are replacing.
adminJuly 16, 2010
Jonathan Chevreau’s review of Richard Florida’s latest book, The Great Reset with outlook on Toronto.
adminJuly 14, 2010
Richard Florida’s new book, “The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity.” equates the current moment to the nation’s two earlier major economic meltdowns — the Long Depression that followed the Panic of 1873 and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The reset that followed each of those episodes transformed the American geography in ways that fit perfectly into the new model for prosperity. It’ll happen again this time, says Florida, but it won’t be quick and easy.
adminJuly 14, 2010
Wondering where you earn the highest incomes? Richard Florida and his team have put together the definitive list of American’s 20 highest earning cities.
adminJuly 14, 2010
Author and Professor Richard Florida discusses his book, “The Great Reset.” Florida directs the Martin Prosperity Institute and is a professor of Business and Creativity at the Rotman School of Management, at the University of Toronto. He founded the Creative Class Group, a firm charting new trends in business.
adminJuly 8, 2010
Canada’s economy is badly in need of significant structural changes. Without the pressure of a crisis, there’s a real danger that we’ll settle for complacency, instead.
adminJuly 7, 2010
More and more workers are plugging in and taking meetings at places, like Starbucks, that aren’t home or the office. Richard Florida on why this trend will change our business world.
adminJuly 7, 2010
Periods of crisis and creative destruction such as the current one are when new categories of jobs are created as old categories of jobs are destroyed. The key to a sustained recovery is to turn as many of these – as well as existing lower-paying jobs – into better, family-supporting jobs.
adminJuly 6, 2010
A trio of authors agree in their new books about life in the postcrash world. Rather than bemoaning the harsh realities of the Great Recession, they see the downturn as a chance for Americans to enjoy a healthier, greener lifestyle.
adminJuly 6, 2010
The Creative Class’s Richard Florida, author of “The Great Reset” on global change and recovery after the financial crisis. He will be speaking at the Ideas Fest next week.
JAS’ Horowitz and ACF’s Tormohlen on The Little Dance, a community event for kids on Saturday July 3rd.
adminJuly 2, 2010
People used to follow the jobs; they moved where the company sent them. But today, people often pick a place to live first and then look for work. Today, it may be where we live, rather than who’s employing us at the moment, that attaches us to our work and careers.
adminJune 28, 2010
It’s not just a matter of bank failures, spiraling foreclosures, high unemployment and the rest of this mess. Many of us sense that we’re on the cusp of a fundamental shift in our economy and culture. Though most may be in denial, the evidence strongly suggests that the American economy has been propelled and sustained by criminally inflated credit and rampant speculation, and we are on the precipice of a change that will result in a dramatically altered American landscape.
adminJune 28, 2010
In his latest book, The Great Reset, Florida recounts causes of the Long Depression of 1870s and the Great Depression of 1930s, and analyses the ensuing social and economical effects – the rise of innovation, changes in infrastructure, geographical resettlement and alteration of ways of living and working. Florida calls these adjustments resets and thinks the next Great Reset will take place soon or even now, if not already.
adminJune 26, 2010
According to Philip Langdon, the prescriptions in this stimulating book ought to be on the national agenda. Florida is in the vanguard of something vital.
adminJune 24, 2010
To Richard Florida, calling today’s economic woes the “Great Recession” doesn’t begin to describe the tectonic forces at work. He believes today’s recession is a “great reset” that will fundamentally change the work we do and the way we do it.
adminJune 21, 2010
Jim Donnelly interviews Richard Florida on The Great Reset and how the city of Ottawa fares.
adminJune 17, 2010
Richard Florida says owning a home may actually be a drawback given the economic flexibility required to power long-lasting recovery. He and his colleagues tracked homeownership levels across U.S. cities and regions to see how they correlate to other measurable demographic and economic factors.
adminJune 16, 2010
John Hagel reviews Richard Florida’s compelling new book, The Great Reset, that takes a longer term historical view of changing patterns in the settlement of people and places.
adminJune 15, 2010
According to Delta Sky Magazine, in 23 punchy, provocative chapters, Richard Florida calls for the recalibration of our economy, rating his new book, The Great Reset, 4.5 out of 5 stars in this month’s Read Up.
adminJune 15, 2010
The City of Tyler developed the Industry Growth Initiative (IGI), a plan to bring the city further into the Innovation Economy with much of the research based on the work of Richard Florida.
adminJune 15, 2010
Richard Florida shares his views on what needs to happen if cities are to succeed.
adminJune 15, 2010
The American College of Sports Medicine has just released the latest version of the American Fitness Index, which ranks the health and fitness levels of America’s fifty largest cities.
adminJune 14, 2010
Individuals and the country would be better off if we had fewer home owners and more renters, Richard Florida writes in the Wall Street Journal.
adminJune 14, 2010
There’s no question that this year’s 1.6 million college graduates are entering the job market during one of America’s worst economic crises. But this does not mean that college grads are facing unprecedented kinds of trouble.
adminJune 9, 2010
Florida points out that while it’s a good thing for some people to buy a house,that doesn’t mean everybody should own a home. Home ownership makes it harder for people to move for work, which carries a real cost.
adminJune 7, 2010
This incredibly interesting and well-written commentator on the socio-economics of the modern era has hit yet another grand slam, eclipsing his phenomenal “Rise of the Creative Class” with the bright-yellow covered, “The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive a Post-Crash Prosperity.”
adminJune 3, 2010
Urban studies theorist Richard Florida came by the Big Think offices to talk about what he’s coined “The Great Reset”—the effects of the economic crisis on our country, and how it is reshaping the way we live.
adminJune 3, 2010
Interview with Richard Florida by Gretchen Rubin who was curious about how the author thinks about happiness in the context of his own life.
adminJune 1, 2010
Richard Florida, the well-known economist and urban theorist, says the Capital Region of Albany is one of the top 25 areas for the young and ambitious.
adminJune 1, 2010
“The promise of the current Reset is the opportunity for a life made better not by ownership of real estate, appliances, cars, and all manner of material goods, but by greater flexibility and lower levels of debt, more time with family and friends, greater promise of personal development, and access to more and better experiences.”
adminJune 1, 2010
Tallahassee has landed as No. 15 in a listing of the 25 Best Cities for College Grads that was reported by Richard Florida, a frequent visitor to the city and an inspiration behind the Knight Creative Communities Institute (KCCI) that is at work improving the vitality of life in the community.
adminJune 1, 2010
The news and opinion site TheDailyBeast.com has ranked Albany #23 on its list of 25 best cities for college graduates based on a list by Richard Florida who said he and his team analyzed a Gallup survey of 28,000 Americans in their twenties to figure out the key draws for them in a location after they graduate college.
adminMay 27, 2010
If – as the author Richard Florida and others contend – we are in the middle of the sort of change that followed the Long Depression and the Great Depression of the 1930s, then the usual measures to deal with economic downturns are unlikely to work.
adminMay 27, 2010
The Class of 2010 is heading into the real world but where should they live? Urban guru Richard Florida and his team find the best cities for the young and ambitious.
adminMay 26, 2010
Royal Philips Electronics annouced the launch of the Philips Livable Cities Award, an initiative designed to generate practical, achievable ideas for improving the health and well-being of people living in cities. Individuals, community or non-governmental groups and businesses are eligible to participate in the Award program.
adminMay 26, 2010
Royal Philips Electronics announces the launch of the Philips Livable Cities Award, an initiative designed to generate practical, achievable ideas for improving the health and well-being of people living in cities with Richard Florida as chair of the international panel of experts.
adminMay 25, 2010
Richard Florida examines the challenges Toronto and Canada face, especially in light of how the tectonic economic events of the past 18 months are recasting the role of cities and regions worldwide.
adminMay 24, 2010
Part 4: Richard Florida describes the shift from suburbs to enormous metropolitan regions
adminMay 21, 2010
The Rotman prof by day, rock star by night—who just released his latest urban manifesto—reveals the 10 things he can’t live without.
adminMay 18, 2010
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.
adminMay 18, 2010
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.
adminMay 17, 2010
Richard Florida’s, The Great Reset, examines how the financial crisis could spark real change.
adminMay 17, 2010
The Great Reset we’re in the middle of is going to take time, but it is happening now, and where we live and work—and how we live and work—is going to have to change to meet the new economy’s needs. To navigate that change, Richard Florida’s The Great Reset is the perfect guide.
adminMay 17, 2010
Richard Florida, an author and professor, wrote the following piece in response to an article by BNET’s Jessica Stillman, ‘Do Guns and Oil Outearn Brains.
adminMay 15, 2010
Local entrepreneurship, arts and cultural industries … have become the core stuff of economic development, writes Richard Florida in The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity. Please see the excerpt.
adminMay 15, 2010
Richard Florida says it’s time to stop propping up the old economy. His solution? Ditch the car, live downtown and become a renter
adminMay 15, 2010
Urban theorist Richard Florida says so many people are trapped in homeownership today that it’s harming our economy.
adminMay 14, 2010
Richard Florida explains why long commutes used to make sense — and why they no longer do
adminMay 14, 2010
Felix Salmon’s review of Richard Florida’s new book, The Great Reset. The conceit of this book is that the crisis of 2008 will act much like previous crises in 1873 and 1933, and mark the point at which the old way of doing things died and a new social order began to rise from the ashes.
adminMay 12, 2010
Part 1: Richard Florida talks to Don Peck about how the great American cities rose out of the Industrial Revolution
adminMay 12, 2010
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.
adminMay 11, 2010
Richard Florida, who wrote a widely-quoted book about revitalizing cities by attracting “the creative class,” has penned a new book about changes wrought by this financial crisis – especially in housing. It’s titled “The Great Reset.”
adminMay 10, 2010
According to BizEd in The Great Reset, Richard Florida offers a thoughtful, generally hopeful assessment of where we are now, how we got here – and how we can rebuild in the future.
adminMay 10, 2010
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.
adminMay 10, 2010
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.
adminMay 10, 2010
Richard Florida’s latest book, The Great Reset, looks at the lasting effects of economic recessions: how they’ve shaped our society in the past, and how the one we’re currently in will do so again over the next few decades. Jeremy’s Dann’s interview here with Richard Florida.
adminMay 6, 2010
Every Great Reset has seen our system of housing change.The rate of home ownership has been on the decline for some time now. Many of those who still choose to buy homes will choose smaller ones, while many more will opt for rental housing. A further look at housing in America after the Great Reset.
adminMay 6, 2010
Bloomberg’s 50 of their avorite titles published since Jan. 1, 2009, including Richard Florida’s, The Great Reset.
adminMay 4, 2010
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria says if you’re looking for a book to brighten your outlook on current events, pick up Richard Florida’s, The Great Reset.
adminMay 2, 2010
The Daily Beast’s pick for this week’s hot reads says The Great Reset is a bold prospectus from Richard Florida on how the U.S. can get back on its feet.
adminMay 2, 2010
DaytonCREATE was born out of Richard Florida’s creative class concept and it has gone on to create burgeoning groups and events for the Dayton area.
adminMay 2, 2010
TheStreet.com goes behind the headlines to find out who and what is really moving the market each day.
adminApril 29, 2010
Richard Florida’s new book “The Great Reset” puts forth a road map to not only survive, but to prosper as we come out of this latest recession.
adminApril 29, 2010
Florida in his new book, The Great Reset, argues that economic bust is usually followed by innovation boom, resulting in better living standards.
adminApril 29, 2010
Robert Morris’ 5 out of 5 Star Review of Richard Florida’s, The Great Reset. According to Morris, The Great Reset is the most valuable book that Richard Florida has written…thus far.
adminApril 27, 2010
How has the global financial meltdown affected cities around the world? BNN speaks to urbanist Richard Florida, author of the new book, “The Great Reset.”
adminApril 27, 2010
How has the global financial meltdown affected cities around the world? BNN speaks to urbanist Richard Florida, author of the new book, “The Great Reset.”
adminApril 27, 2010
How has the global financial meltdown affected cities around the world? BNN speaks to urbanist Richard Florida, author of the new book, “The Great Reset.”
adminApril 27, 2010
Economic crises present opportunities for social and economic resets. Author and economic development expert Richard Florida gives his view of what’s ahead in his new book, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity.
adminApril 27, 2010
Richard Florida is urging Americans to be…less rooted. Florida points to studies indicating that in areas of high home ownership — translation: low geographic mobility — there is “less economic productivity, higher rates of unemployment and…lower levels of well-being.”
adminApril 27, 2010
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.
adminApril 27, 2010
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.
adminApril 27, 2010
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.
adminApril 27, 2010
Urban thinker Richard Florida agrees that owning a home is not always better than renting. In his new book The Great Reset, Florida quotes an economist who believes “America needs to get over its house passion.” Florida talks to Steve Inskeep about new ways to live and work post-recession.
adminApril 27, 2010
Richard Florida, best-selling author and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, describes how today’s economic crisis will drive innovation that will change the way we live and work.
adminApril 22, 2010
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.
adminApril 21, 2010
Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class, told ULI attendees in Boston that human creativity will power the next economic boom, and to succeed, places must meet the needs of the most talented and innovative workers.
adminApril 21, 2010
Robert Morris interviews Richard Florida on his new book The Great Reset and how new ways of living and working will drive post-crash prosperity.
adminApril 19, 2010
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.
adminApril 19, 2010
Richard Florida’s upcoming book, The Great Reset, examines how the economic crash will reshape the way we work and live. We spoke with Florida about what makes a neighborhood great, why small communities need more political power, and the transformation of American suburbs.
adminApril 19, 2010
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.
adminApril 19, 2010
The Conference Board Review cites Richard Florida’s The Great Reset as one of 5 recent reads that caught their attention.
adminApril 19, 2010
Richard Florida has posted on a new study (PDF) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that shows where workers work the longest hours and make the most money.
adminApril 13, 2010
Robert Morris interviews Richard Florida. In his latest book, The Great Reset, Florida explains how new ways of living and working will drive post-crash prosperity.
adminApril 13, 2010
Richard Florida discusses what makes a state’s labor force more or less likely to work longer weeks and get higher pay.
His result: Education seems to play a big role in how long a state’s average resident works, and for what wage.
adminApril 13, 2010
The tale of the economy’s remarkable turnaround is largely the story of swift reaction, a willingness to write off bad debts and restructure, and an embrace of efficiency—disciplines largely invented in the U.S. America still leads the world at processing failure, at latching on to new innovations and building them to scale quickly and profitably. “We are the most adaptive, inventive nation, and have proven quite resilient,” says Richard Florida, sociologist and author of The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity.
adminApril 12, 2010
Since 2007, Americans have suffered through the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression. Florida is among a growing number of researchers who think that these are signs that the United States is becoming a nation of renters, and that the shift could be good for our pocketbooks, the economy and even our happiness.
adminApril 12, 2010
This research examines the effect of skill
in cities on regional wages. In place of the extant literature’s focus on human
capital or knowledge-based or creative
occupations, we focus our analysis on actual skills.
adminApril 8, 2010
Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class, talks about that book and his next one, The Great Reset, as keynote speaker for the opening of the Creative Cities Summit at the Lexington Center.
adminApril 8, 2010
Florida is the keynote speaker at the opening of the Creative Cities Summit in Lexington, a three-day international conference of people focused on economic development and revitalization of their communities.
adminApril 7, 2010
Richard Florida, author of Who’s Your City? featured in Business Management Review’s Profile column.
adminApril 5, 2010
According to Dallas Business Commentary Examiner, Robert Morris there is no one else who generates more and more valuable insights concerning the evolution of the U.S. culture than does Richard Florida.
adminMarch 17, 2010
Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander find that occupational or “creative class” measures tend to outperform educational measures in accounting for regional wages per capita across their sample of Swedish regions.
adminMarch 16, 2010
The National Post reveals the most promising-sounding books by Canadian authors of the next three months.
adminMarch 16, 2010
In his book The Great Reset, Richard Florida examines the need to understand that classroom education is merely one phase of a continuous process of learning, discovery, and engagement that can occur anywhere and anytime.
adminMarch 16, 2010
Richard Florida discusses how American ingenuity—which is often foreign ingenuity—is waning because the world’s most talented individuals are either not coming to America or are being seduced away from America by such countries as Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
adminMarch 16, 2010
The bestselling author worries about the consequences of so many American-educated MBAs starting their careers in Asia.
adminMarch 12, 2010
Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Peter J. Rentfrow examine 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.
adminMarch 11, 2010
This study by Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander examines the effects of post-industrial economic structures and values on smoking and obesity.
adminMarch 4, 2010
Richard Florida takes a look at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. When you account for population size, medal count reveals a crude measure of what’s behind national athletic excellence.
adminFebruary 26, 2010
South Korea has clawed its way out of poverty by becoming a manufacturing powerhouse. But to stay a world-class economy will require the country to draw on a different set of skills. In the future, it will be the ability to create—as distinct from the ability to produce—that will foster innovation, and with it, sustainable economic growth. Whether it is new ideas, new business models, new cultural forms, new technologies, or new industries, it is creative capital that will drive the world economy. The ability to harness creativity will be the biggest challenge, as well as the biggest opportunity, for South Korea.
adminFebruary 23, 2010
Richard Florida his colleague Charlotta Mellander have taken a closer look at the metropolitan well-being numbers and found moderate correlations between happiness and other factors, like wages, unemployment and output per capita. The variable they looked at that showed the strongest relationship with happiness was “human capital,” measured as the share of the population with a bachelor’s degree or higher.
adminFebruary 22, 2010
Author Richard Florida to speak at Texas Tech University Presidential Lecture and Performance Series February 5, 2010.
adminFebruary 10, 2010
Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and professor of business and creativity at the University of Toronto, will offer his revolutionary insight to Lubbock’s business leaders and students at Texas Tech.
adminFebruary 4, 2010
The recession’s reshaping the country in surprising ways, according to author Richard Florida.
adminFebruary 2, 2010
Big economic events — like the one we’re in now — change the map of America. They make winners and losers. They change where we live and work and what we do.
Acclaimed urban theorist Richard Florida says that on the other side of this economic bust, America’s economic geography will be different. Some cities, towns, regions will roar back to new prosperity. Others, he says, may find a reshaped economy passing them by. Some may be history.
adminFebruary 2, 2010
CBC News sits down with this bestselling author, an influential academic who’s advising top politicians on how to reshape the economy, and ask: when the recession ends, which industries and which companies will be left standing? And how will your city fare?
adminFebruary 2, 2010
George Strounboulopoulos talks with Richard Florida about this time of great reset for our economy.
adminFebruary 2, 2010
Urban theorist Richard Florida is the author of the controversial book, The Rise of the Creative Class, which argues that creative people living in densely populated regions are the driving force for 21st century economic development.
More recently, he’s written about “How the Crash Will Reshape America” in the The Atlantic monthly. Florida says the U.S. economy will flourish if we allow it to “reset,” and encourage policies that would concentrate a highly mobile American population in compact cities.
adminFebruary 2, 2010
With Detroit home prices at record lows, is this the end of a great American city or its best chance for a revival? How will the crash reshape America? That is the title question of Richard Florida’s piece in the Atlantic this month.
adminFebruary 2, 2010
How the collapse of the Big Three automakers might actually turn out to be a good thing for Detroit.
adminFebruary 2, 2010
Now more than ever, companies need unconventional thinking to work within the new rules set by the economic recession. Richard Florida has persuasively demonstrated how artists, scientists, engineers, writers, musicians and more can revitalize an entire city from urban decay. With today’s companies in a similar situation, what can members of the Creative Class do for businesses? Discussion of where new hires might come from and the impact they can make.
adminFebruary 2, 2010
Michael Lind argues New York and London are in for the biggest fall… Not so fast.
adminFebruary 1, 2010
The economic crisis appears to be causing a slight but noticeable shift from the suburbs to the cities, according to an analysis of recent Census data by Brookings demographer William Frey, reported in the Wall Street Journal.
adminFebruary 1, 2010
Writing in The Atlantic, I argued that the economic crisis was reshaping America’s economic geography, with big city centers and mega-region hubs like New York City, talent-rich regions like greater D.C., and college towns weathering the storm relatively well, while Rustbelt cities and shallow-rooted Sunbelt economies being much harder hit.
adminFebruary 1, 2010
The Texas Tech Presidential Lecture & Performance Series premiers its spring season this February 2010 with best-selling author Richard Florida.
adminFebruary 1, 2010
Richard Florida gave a very compelling presentation in Albany on September 24, 2009 on how the Capitol Region is one of the top “Creative Class” areas.
adminJanuary 26, 2010
Article for Revista Nueva, general interest national magazine in Argentina, reflecting interview with Richard Florida on Who’s Your City?
adminJanuary 12, 2010
Article from Ex Exportador, belonging to the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade, on talent management.
adminJanuary 12, 2010
Why are Americans becoming less nomadic? Greater labor mobility helps the economy, but are there other kinds of effects — negative or positive — related to a more rooted population? Is there an upside to more Americans staying closer to their hometowns?
adminJanuary 12, 2010
Florida predicts the current Great Recession, like its predecessor international economic crises, “will accelerate the rise and fall of specific places within the U.S. — and reverse the fortunes of other cities and regions”. This may not bode well for the Capital Region.
adminJanuary 11, 2010
In an interview with EurActiv, Richard Florida, author of ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’, said European countries are battling to attract and retain innovative people.
adminDecember 21, 2009
The creative class – innovative knowledge workers in all sectors of the economy – will rule the 21st century. So argued social scientist Richard Florida in a seminal article (and later a book), written in 2002. But what does it mean for creative class employees to show leadership? And what does this imply for conventional leadership?
adminDecember 3, 2009
STAR is one of four initiatives from the Creative Community Leadership Project in cooperation with the city of Roanoke and the Creative Class Group. This was the first of a series of three open-door discussions about diversity and inclusion.
adminDecember 3, 2009
The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a think tank, professional association and educator in talent management strategies, announced that Dr. Richard Florida, widely regarded as one of the most influential scholars on the shift to the new knowledge economy, will headline HCI’s inaugural National Human Capital Summit, to be held in Chicago April 6-7, 2010.
adminDecember 3, 2009
Dr. Richard Florida speaks at The Art of Transition event hosted by the Region of Durham’s economic development and tourism department November 12, 2009.
adminNovember 30, 2009
The Rise of the Creative Class ranks 9th on The Globe and Mail’s list of best selling business books.
adminNovember 24, 2009
Dr. Richard Florida is the keynote speaker at The Art of Transition, hosted by the Region of Durham’s economic development and tourism department, Nov. 12, 2009 at the Ajax Convention Centre.
adminNovember 23, 2009
The Spectator asked urban economist and Who’s Your City? author Richard Florida a few questions about the impact of the Pan Am Games on Hamilton and area.
adminNovember 19, 2009
Looking to exercise body and mind and leave a positive mark on society, retiring baby boomers are shunning gated communities for vibrant cities and towns.
adminNovember 18, 2009
An in depth interview with Richard Florida on the creative class and a most interesting palm reading.
adminNovember 18, 2009
In the last 14 months, the world has witnessed the greatest economic transformation in all of human history, urban thinker Richard Florida told a rapt audience in Burlington November 17, 2009 at an event for the Halton Industry Education Council.
adminNovember 18, 2009
Urban studies guru Richard Florida is the keynote speaker at the Halton Industry Education Council’s 20th anniversary gala today being held at the Burlington Convention Centre November 17, 2009.
adminNovember 17, 2009
Researchers, Peter J. Rentfrow of the University of Cambridge in England, Charlotta Mellander of the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden and Richard Florida (of “The Creative Class” fame) of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, used data from Gallup’s well-being index to figure out which states are happier than others.
adminNovember 16, 2009
Bestselling author and cultural anthropologist Richard Florida speaks at the second annual Marketing Week event November 12, 2009.
adminNovember 16, 2009
Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander look at the roll of human capital and occupation based measures in shaping cross-national economic performance.
adminNovember 13, 2009
Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Kevin Stolarick examine the effects of beauty and aesthetics on community satisfaction.
adminNovember 10, 2009
Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Peter J. Rentfrow in this work aim to replicate and extend previous work by examining the geographic distribution and correlates of well-being within the US.
adminNovember 9, 2009
Finpro Magazine seeks to offer business foresight for Finnish companies, and encourages them to go abroad with their businesses. In the magazine, one way of offering foresight is presenting weak signals and trends that Finpro’s consultant network has collected around the world. One of the five trends presented is “the creative employee”. The article tells about the challenges that the creative employee brings to their leaders with a look at Richard Florida’s ideas on how to manage creative people.
adminNovember 5, 2009
This report by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, and Peter J. Rentfrow examines results that suggest that residents of states with high levels of well-being were wealthier, better educated, more tolerant, and emotionally stable compared to residents of states with comparatively low levels of well-being. Analyses indicated that connections between well-being and class structure, diversity, and personality remained after controlled income.
adminNovember 3, 2009
Canada has cities with lots of creative and tolerant people, but falls short of the United States in turning culture into tangible economic benefits, Richard Florida told officials at Ottawa City Hall October 30, 2009
adminNovember 3, 2009
Richard Florida asserts that the world is “spiky”-with talent, innovation and creativity clustering in mega-regions that are increasingly powerful drivers of the global economy.
adminNovember 2, 2009
Richard Florida speaks for the Ontario Hospital Association in Toronto November 17, 2009 along with other keynote speakers Michael Moore, Newt Gingrich and Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
adminNovember 2, 2009
Richard Florida speaks at the Creative Places + Spaces Conference in Toronto billed as “one of the world’s leading forums on creativity”.
adminNovember 1, 2009
Richard Florida speaks at the third-ever Creative Places + Spaces event in Toronto along with Mayor Miller and Sir Ken Robinson.
adminNovember 1, 2009
Richard Florida to meet Ottawa City Mayor Larry O’Brien’s office October 30, 2009.
adminOctober 26, 2009
Richard Florida, the author of the book “The Rise of the Creative Class,” has written an article in The Atlantic titled “How the Crash Will Reshape America” which makes several points that are particularly relevant to the Greater Rockford region.
adminOctober 26, 2009
The Business Executive interviews Richard Florida, Author, Who’s Your City and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, will be the keynote speaker at HIEC’s 20th Anniversary event on Nov. 17, 2009.
adminOctober 10, 2009
Florida, who spoke Sept. 25 at the University of Texas at Arlington as the first of the school’s 2009 Maverick Speaker Series, is best known for his concepts of the creative class and the idea of urban regeneration and several books on the subject, including The Rise of the Creative Class, Cities and the Creative Class and his latest, Who’s Your City?
adminOctober 5, 2009
WSJ asks Richard Florida and five other experts which 10 cities will emerge as the hottest, hippest destinations for highly mobile, educated workers in their 20s when the U.S. economy gets moving again.
adminSeptember 30, 2009
The rise of the creative class and its new type of economic development, and what that means for the Capital Region will be the focus of a presentation at The Palace in Albany, NY.
adminSeptember 29, 2009
Richard Florida ranks among those best twitter feeds for financial intelligence.
adminSeptember 29, 2009
Richard Florida speaks at the University of Texas at Arlington sharing insights that the Dallas-Forth Worth area is doing okay but has room for improvement.
adminSeptember 28, 2009
Richard Florida delivered the keynote address at IT World Canada’s Toronto-based Showcase Ontario event, Sept. 22. The academic and author discussed ideas put forward in his best-selling book The Rise of the Creative Class and his soon-to-be-released (and tentatively titled) The Great Reset.
adminSeptember 25, 2009
According to Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class: And How it’s Transforming Work, Leisure,
Community and Everyday Life, members of the creative class are very different from those who are employed in the manufacturing, service or agriculture industries. They contribute to our economy primarily by producing the new forms and ideas exploited by our various industries and decision-makers.If Toronto is serious about maintaining – or, hopefully, improving – its national and international presence in the world’s markets, it may be a good idea to foster an atmosphere that not only attracts such individuals, but also encourages and promotes those ideas and new forms they produce.
adminSeptember 24, 2009
Planetizen’s poll for the top 100 urban thinkers ranging from planners of the past to active thinkers of today including Richard Florida at number 29.
adminSeptember 21, 2009
In his latest book, “Who’s Your City?.” Florida expands on the work that he’s done in previous books to speak to two audiences. First, the book gives cities a sense of what they need to do to attract and keep the best and the brightest. Second, the book gives guidance to individuals trying to make the very important choice of where they want to live. How does Jackson rank?
adminSeptember 16, 2009
Five local nonprofit organizations received the 2009 Touchstone Award from the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation. The event’s theme, “Celebrating our Creative Economy,” included ideas from a 2007 presentation at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center by Richard Florida, an author and professor who talks about the “creative class.”
adminSeptember 16, 2009
The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation announces the recipients of the 2009 Touchstone Awards. This year’s theme “Celebrating Our Creative Economy” celebrates the work of Dr. Richard Florida and the impact his message has had on the Twin Ports.
adminSeptember 16, 2009
Richard Florida ranked 24 out of 100 best twitter feeds for business students, posting links to economic stories that impact everyone’s lives such as unemployment, personal bankruptcy, and spending.
adminSeptember 16, 2009
The surge of art galleries in Omaha’s old warehouse district reflects a national trend, said Richard Florida, author of the bestselling book “The Rise of the Creative Class” and a renowned expert on urban renewal and the arts.
adminSeptember 10, 2009
The Sacramento Bee catches the numbers mapped out by University of Toronto professor Richard Florida in his book “Who’s Your City?”, comparing the ratio of single men to women ages 20 to 64 in urban areas across the United States.
adminSeptember 8, 2009
Richard Florida has faced off numerous critics since he arrived in Toronto. But the globe-trotting urbanist thinks the world can learn a lot from this city’s past and people.
adminAugust 28, 2009
Richard Florida argues rather forcefully that “personality plays a significant role in understanding cities, regions … and economic growth.”All this begs the question that Florida asks, “Who’s your city?” What is the “personality” of our city? Or, what is the “Spirit” of Toledo?
adminAugust 28, 2009
On Sept. 24, 2009, the best-selling author and pop economist will be at the Palace Theatre in Albany to speak about the concepts in his latest book, “Who’s Your City? – How the Creative Economy is Making the Place Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life.”
adminAugust 26, 2009
An interview with Richard Florida who believes attracting talented people is the driving force behind successful cities.
adminAugust 26, 2009
Richard Florida tackles the enduring appeal of the city in his book Who’s Your City? and despite our ability to live remotely, we still crave the buzz of cities.
adminAugust 23, 2009
Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and author of The Rise of the Creative Class (among other books) is the leading guru of the creative economy. Here’s his recipe for baking a successful creative age economy.
adminAugust 20, 2009
Richard Florida’s take on “How Cities Renew” in relation to his recent trip to Abu Dhabi, his observations on the city and its people.
adminAugust 14, 2009
Richard Florida finds that states with higher unemployment rates do tend to have higher rates of drug use.
adminAugust 13, 2009
Now that Florida has stimulated further debate about the correlation between location and happiness, OA publisher Warwick Sabin asked him to apply his theories to the American South, where a sense of place has always mattered most.
adminAugust 9, 2009
This article takes at look at Richard Florida’s recently published research on America’s music scenes.
adminAugust 3, 2009
For a daily stream of business tips, life lessons, personal finance help, tech tips, and more, check out these incredibly insightful Tweeters, among them Richard Florida
adminAugust 3, 2009
The flattening of the world increasingly makes it possible for anyone to do business from anywhere, as author Thomas Friedman has pointed out. However, that doesn’t mean place is irrelevant to business. In fact, it matters more than ever, according to author Richard Florida. At the intersection of Opportunity and Culture, the concepts of Friedman and Florida collide.
adminJuly 29, 2009
Richard Florida argues that the more “gay-friendly” a city is, the more economically prosperous it will be.
adminJuly 23, 2009
Want to be more successful and happy? Richard Florida says take a hard look at where you live , and if it’s not the right fit, move to a place that is.
adminJuly 22, 2009
Richard Florida discusses the rise of “means metros” in an article on McKinsey & Co.’s blog. These are the urban areas that in recent decades have gathered a disproportionate share of America’s most talented workers. Seattle is among this elite few.
adminJuly 20, 2009
Today a highly significant demographic realignment is at work: the mass relocation of highly skilled, highly educated, and highly paid people to a relatively small number of metropolitan regions, and corresponding exodus of traditional lower- and middle-class people from those same places.
adminJuly 20, 2009
The concentration of bohemians and gays consistently have a staggering impact on housing values.
adminJuly 20, 2009
Thirty new “community catalysts” will be selected to work together with local leaders and advocates to develop projects aimed at diversifying Tallahassee’s economy beyond government and education.
adminJuly 15, 2009
Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander argue that artists, bohemians and gays affect housing values through two kinds of mechanisms: an aesthetic-amenity premium; and a tolerance or open culture premium.
adminJuly 11, 2009
Every few years someone puts together a top list for singles, but now Richard Florida has compiled a list just for the Y generation. These cities, which ranked in the top, provide various career opportunities, colleges, and potential for growth.
adminJuly 11, 2009
Brief is dedicated to the place marketing, branding, management and development which has organized in Poland many successful projects dedicated to the local and national governments.
adminJuly 8, 2009
Whether you’re a city lover, have a keen interest in our economy, or an arm-chair social scientist seeking to understand global trends then this book will give you much to ponder.
adminJune 29, 2009
Richard Florida says creative workers constitute 30 percent of the American work force and earn 50 percent of the salaries.
He offers advice for working with your creative staff.
adminJune 26, 2009
Bullet-train idea is back, as it is throughout the rest of the country, thanks to $13 billion for high-speed rail (HSR) that was tucked into President Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus package.
adminJune 22, 2009
The merging of the Noosa Creative Alliance and the Sunshine Coast to create the Sunshine Coast Regional Alliance in Noosa, Australia.
adminJune 19, 2009
In his best-selling book, Who’s Your City?, Dr. Florida argues that the world is a “spiky place”, characterized by a concentration of economic activity, innovation, and resulting prosperity in a relatively small number of urban hotspots around the planet.
adminJune 18, 2009
Cutting back on the excess of the boom years might not be so bad, some families discover.
adminJune 18, 2009
A report by Richard Florida and Kevin Stolarick, at the Martin Prosperity Institute, in Who’s Your City? looked at 363 metropolitan areas to drum up a list of the top spots for singles.
adminJune 18, 2009
Richard Florida says “a relatively small number of locations still produce the lion’s share of innovation.” These places continue to attract the most talented people from around the world, who then “combine and recombine in new and innovative ways that increase the odds that something great will emerge.”
adminJune 18, 2009
According to the singles map constructed by the team at the Creative Class Group, it tells you almost exactly how many more single men than women there are in certain parts of the country … and how many more women than men in others.
adminJune 18, 2009
Where you live is among the most important decisions you’ll ever make argues Richard Florida, author of Who’s Your City? Young singles between the ages of 20 and 29 are looking for a few key ingredients: cities with diverse job opportunities, an abundance of potential life partners, and many universities.
adminJune 18, 2009
All About Jazz : Music and the Creative Class: Why Place Matters to Music and Music Matters to Place
In Who’s Your City?, the follow up to Richard Florida’s groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, the author argues that for most “creatives”, where to live is the most important decision of their lives.
adminJune 17, 2009
The upper East Coast is the best place for men to find more single women, according to the chart created in Richard Florida’s book “Who’s Your City”, using census results.
adminJune 17, 2009
The Tampa Bay area has morphed from an overpriced housing market (in a region of modest wages) to a very affordable place for young people to get their own place to live.
adminJune 15, 2009
Columnist Rheba Estante’s personal perspective on how your city of residence brings joy or sorrow.
adminJune 15, 2009
Richard Florida on how members of Generation Y are picking their new hometowns as they graduate from college and enter the workforce during a recession.
adminJune 10, 2009
Richard Florida, speaking at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce luncheon, says it will take growing the city’s “creative class” to grow the local economy.
adminJune 10, 2009
Fort Worth Star Telegram : Mitchell Schnurman: Place matters most, especially to young professionals
Richard Florida speaks at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce annual meeting, June 2009.
adminJune 8, 2009
The merging of the Noosa Creative Alliance and the Sunshine Coast to create the Sunshine Coast Regional Alliance in Noosa, Australia.
adminJune 4, 2009
Richard Florida gave voice to a movement to revitalize cities by attracting and nurturing the “creative class” . There is no shortage of evidence of the power of the creative class to transform post-industrial cities, but how music, along with the companies that follow and feed it, contribute to the Creative Class is just beginning to get special attention.
adminJune 3, 2009
“The Roanoke region is poised at a crossroads-holding on to its industrial history while venturing into a creative economy that may just be the key to its future.”
adminJune 3, 2009
The City of Roanoke engaged in a year-long Creative Communities Leadership project that gives emerging leaders the tools they need to generate greater economic prosperity in their region.
adminJune 3, 2009
Richard Florida’s speaking in Naples, Florida as part of Project Innovation, a community-wide project the Economic Development Council of Collier County launched late last year to build an action plan for a better economy.
adminMay 31, 2009
Richard Florida’s article in the Atlantic entitled, “How The Crash Will Reshape America” on why New York will remain as the world’s financial capital and why, despite the projected growth of Asia’s economies, we should not expect Shanghai, Hong Kong, or anywhere else to usurp it. At least not for an exceedingly long time.
adminMay 31, 2009
There Goes the Neighborhood : How and Why Bohemians, Artists and Gays Affect Regional Housing Values
This report authored by Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander examines the effects these populations have on increasing housing values in the neighborhoods and communities they inhabit.
adminMay 27, 2009
Creative China? The University, Human Capital and the Creative Class in Chinese Regional Development
In this study by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Haifeng Qian, the authors employ both educational and occupational measures of talent to examine the relationships between talent, technology and regional economic performance in China.
adminMay 27, 2009
This paper by Richard Florida, Charlotta Melander and Kevin Stolarick analyzes the economic geography of musicians and the recording industry in the U.S. from 1970 to 2000 to shed light on the locational dynamics music and creative industries more broadly.
adminMay 27, 2009
Part of the Working Paper Series by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Kevin Stolarick on the factors that shape economic development in Canadian regions.
adminMay 27, 2009
Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Kevin Stolarick in this work hypothesize that the conjoint effects of scale and scope economies combine to shape significant geographic concentration of the entertainment industry.
adminMay 27, 2009
A report on Montreal and it’s creative opportunities by Richard Florida, Kevin Stolarick, and Lou Musante.
adminMay 27, 2009
A report prepared by Richard Florida, Meric S. Gertler, Gary Gates, and Tara Vinodrai for the Ontario Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation and the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity.
adminMay 27, 2009
Richard Florida promotes a vision of economic development that returns government to its core functions-building the civic infrastructure necessary to attract and retain people and businesses.
adminMay 27, 2009
A report by Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander explaining regional development in Sweden.
adminMay 27, 2009
Report by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, and Kevin Stolarick on the importance of human capital to regional development in conjunction with two key issues.
adminMay 27, 2009
Report Summary: Ontario’s Opportunities in the Creative Age by Richard Florida and Roger Martin.
adminMay 27, 2009
To help power the local economy, The Economic Development Council of Collier County established Project Innovation, a series of programs which concluded with Richard Florida’s presentation in May 2009.
adminMay 26, 2009
Richard Florida discusses how creative business decisions will help Canada
withstand the recession at the 11th annual CMA Alberta Accountability Summit
on May 22, 2009, at the TELUS Convention Centre in Calgary.
adminMay 25, 2009
The best-selling author gave hope to community and business leaders looking to build a new and better economy in Collier County.
adminMay 22, 2009
Richard Florida speaks to the Economic Development Council of Collier County in Naples. His words have inspired community and business leaders and left them thinking about how to achieve what he calls the three “Ts” for economic growth: technology, talent and tolerance.
adminMay 22, 2009
Mark Thoma points to San Francisco Fed research on the lasting effects of the past decade’s run-up in consumer debt and current “deleveraging” on the U.S. economy and American consumers.
adminMay 22, 2009
Toronto’s economic development committee invited Prof. Florida, an American academic and author now at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, to enlighten on the way out of the current global financial crisis. Richard Florida went to Toronto city hall to tell councillors that improving the lot of service-sector workers is key to the city’s prosperity.
adminMay 19, 2009
The opportunities that have the best long-term prospects are not warehouses in the middle of nowhere, but a dense, healthy downtown that mixes uses, welcomes artists, leverages the university and college, and brings creative people together to solve problems. Can this become Hamilton?
adminMay 19, 2009
Richard Florida visits Naples as part of Project Innovation, a community-wide project the Economic Development Council of Collier County launched to build an action plan for a better economy.
adminMay 19, 2009
This spring’s 2.3 million newly minted college grads are understandably worried about their economic future. So where are this year’s college grads heading? A recent survey lists the best places for college grads to launch their careers.
adminMay 18, 2009
Richard Florida references Ottawa is a forward-looking mecca for what he calls the “Creative Class” the highly skilled, highly mobile knowledge workers he sees as key to economic productivity now and in the future.
In the Canadian edition of Who’s Your City?, Florida puts diverse, tolerant Ottawa well ahead in the global competition for such brainpower
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida’s research on mega-regions provides a potentially useful framework for thinking about where and how to invest in a national high-speed rail system.
adminMay 15, 2009
Announcement of Richard Florida’s addition to the Atlantic’s team of correspondents and bloggers.
adminMay 15, 2009
Transportation infrastructure plays a big role in economic development by opening up new spaces and by allowing for the redevelopment of old spaces in more intensive ways.
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida has a new blog on the Atlantic website. His first post is about a new Pew poll on American consumption patterns that Felix Salmon and the Economist and others have commented on.
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida writing for the Atlantic thinks high speed rail development is key to economic recovery. He says economic recovery will come through “a new period of geographic expansion – or what geographers term a ‘new spatial fix.'”
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida to visit Toronto’s economic development committee for a brainstorming session on ways out of the current global slump.
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida overlays the proposed high speed rail network on his map of megaregions and makes some very good points.
adminMay 15, 2009
The main cause of the new foreclosure wave appears tied more to the real economy than to the financial mess.
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida’s opinions on innovation and tolerance in Turkey’s monthly magazine of Turkish Informatics Foundation. The mission of the magazine is leading Turkish companies to grow with innovation.
adminMay 11, 2009
Best-selling author and urban theorist Richard Florida, in his new book, “Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life,” suggests that despite technology and globalization, the dictatorship of location is not over, and place is not only important, it’s more important than ever.
adminMay 8, 2009
Will Wilkinson, a research fellow at Washington’s Cato Institute wrote this terrific essay on Toronto’s largely successful experiment in immigration – its global-straddling ethnic mosaic.
adminMay 8, 2009
One of the nation’s foremost experts in economy building says that a community seeking a strong and healthy commerce must tap into the creativity of all its members. Author and adviser Richard Florida will bring his message to Naples on May 20, 2009 when he addresses community and business leaders at a program entitled “It Pays to Be Creative,” part of the ongoing Project Innovation sponsored by the Economic Development Council of Collier County.
adminMay 8, 2009
Working Paper Series: Martin Prosperity Research prepared by Richard Florida, Charlotta Melander, and Tim Gulden on the role of cities and metropolitan areas.
adminMay 4, 2009
The world needs to grow in a way that it can meet the needs of today while preserving the resources for tomorrow. Global City 2009 held in Abu Dhabi recently highlighted some seminal issues confronting urban development – and the way cities must tackle them.
adminMay 4, 2009
Best-selling author and urban theorist Richard Florida, in his new book, “Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life,” suggests that despite technology and globalization, the dictatorship of location is not over, and place is not only important, it’s more important than ever.
adminMay 4, 2009
According to the cover story in the March edition of The Atlantic, renting benefits the economy. The article, written by Richard Florida, says that renters aren’t tied down to one location, so they’re freer to move from town to town as emerging industries and new jobs dictate. The also don’t have the long-term burden of a mortgage.
adminApril 30, 2009
A study from the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute says the Kitchener area underperforms against similarly situated cities in North America in educational attainment and in keeping graduates of its college and universities from leaving the area after graduation.
adminApril 27, 2009
This recession is a “great reset” that offers Canada a chance to emerge from the shadow of its reeling southern neighbor, says Richard Florida
adminApril 25, 2009
Michigan, the national leader in recession, depends on an auto industry that will never be as big as it was. So how does the Detroit area diversify? Who’s hiring, or investing in something new? Morning Edition reports on Detroit’s desperate race to replace the jobs that the automakers eliminate.
adminApril 22, 2009
Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” and “Who’s Your City,” urged broadcasters gathered in the Las Vegas Hilton at the annual National Association of Brfoadcasters event to view upheaval in the economy as an opportunity.
adminApril 21, 2009
Economic Development Council of Collier County’s Project Innovation Program is bringing Richard Florida to headline its “It Pays to be Creative” program in May 2009.
adminApril 21, 2009
Interview with Richard Florida at the recent events in Schio and Maniago, Italy hosted by Nordesteuropa Editore SRL.
adminApril 19, 2009
Tim Harford finds out why deciding where you live could be the most important decision of your life.
adminApril 17, 2009
Richard and Rana Florida recently invited a cross-section of Torontonians to their ultramodern Rosedale home to celebrate Ms. Florida’s recent appointment as a board member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
adminApril 15, 2009
Globe-trotting city theorist Richard Florida and wife Rana find a home to love perched on a Rosedale ravine.
adminApril 15, 2009
In this excerpt from the Canadian edition of “Who’s Your City?” author Richard Florida argues that, while Canada’s cities have done well to avoid some of the economic disparities of U.S. cities, they will need to work harder still.
adminApril 15, 2009
In his new book Who’s Your City?, Florida makes the case that deciding where to live is possibly the most crucial life decision a person can make, right up there with what to do for a living, who not to marry, and whether to have kids or just keep renting. Older generations accepted their geographic place as a given.
adminApril 15, 2009
Sharon Rapoport shares the final four ideas from the Roanoke Richard Florida Creative Connectors 2 Day Seminar on how to change the region for the better.
adminApril 15, 2009
Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, says Canadian cities need to “stop being so humble” and see themselves as global models of exactly the sort of livable communities the U.S. desperately needs.
adminApril 15, 2009
Arts and culture can play key roles in Europe‘s economic recovery, agreed politicians, EU officials and arts experts attending the Prague Forum for Creative Europe, one of the main events of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation.
adminApril 13, 2009
Countering the prevalent gloom, The Atlantic’s provocative March 2009 front cover asks “How The Crash Will Reshape America,” with a counter-intuitive sub-title reading “The Sunbelt Fades, New York Wins.”
adminApril 13, 2009
Richard Florida, the urban theorist and author of the seminal book, The Rise of the Creative Class, is talking about a fundamental “reset” in the North American economy as a consequence of the crash.
adminApril 13, 2009
Which of Ontario’s cities are better prepared for the profound transformation into the creative age? To better understand how Ontario’s city regions are competing the Creative Class Index was used to compare them to peer city regions of roughly equal size from across the US and Canada.
adminApril 13, 2009
There is currently a flurry of media attention on Detroit as a haven for enterprising young artists. Can artists really save a piece of a “ruined city,” a “dying city,” a city that has defied all other attempts at renewal? What has yet to be acknowledged, however, is how an artistic revival of Detroit might present the city with challenges in its very success.
adminApril 13, 2009
If the UAE is viewed as a place less open to, immigrants or young people, the country will fall considerably behind other creative global giants, says Richard Florida, Author, Who’s Your City? and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto, in an interview with the Khaleej Times here.
adminApril 13, 2009
In the just-released Canadian edition of his best-selling guide to cities, Who’s Your City? academic Richard Florida says Canada’s urban municipalities need to stop being so humble, because they already have many of the qualities American cities are trying to achieve. They have a strong middle class, relatively safe streets, dense urban footprints, a strong social safety net and well-educated workers.
adminApril 13, 2009
Richard Florida published “The Rise of the Creative Class,” which set forth a cluster of indicators that predicted a flourishing urban community. Talent, Tolerance and Technology are Florida’s “three T’s,” qualities that Durham can claim in abundance. “To attract creative people, generate innovation and stimulate economic growth, a place must have all three.” (source: Catalytix, Inc., A Richard Florida Creativity Group)
adminApril 13, 2009
Montreal needs to get busy if it is to carve out a place for itself in this new economic order. It has a lot going for it: A vibrant inner city, a deep talent pool of “knowledge” workers, a diverse population and creativity to burn. Its problem is just that Toronto has even more of these things.
adminApril 13, 2009
The story covers the importance of creativity in the modern economy and the advice Professor Florida gave to Korea.
adminApril 12, 2009
The prediction of death to the American dream of owning a home is replaced by a new landscape of technological and scientific prosperity as seen by writer Richard Florida in his article “How the crash will reshape America”.
adminApril 9, 2009
The conclusion of the two-day Creative Communities Leadership Program seminar in Roanoke with four fantastic initiatives.
adminApril 9, 2009
Creative Class Group led CCLP for the city of Roanoke with a 2 day seminar called the Roanoke Creative Communities Leadership Program.
adminApril 9, 2009
The world may indeed have shrunk to one global village due to technology. But that does not make the city you choose to live in any less important, according to renowned urban theorist and best selling author of Who’s Your City? Richard Florida.
adminApril 9, 2009
Richard Florida is talking about a fundamental “reset” in the North American economy as a consequence of the crash.
adminApril 2, 2009
Florida argues that cities are the hubs of today’s “creative class,” which is propelling a new economy that prospers by virtue of its urban aggregation.
adminMarch 30, 2009
The Agenda with Steve Paikin will be broadcasted from The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) on March 30, as part of TVO’s On the Road tour. Through these tours, TVO’s flagship current affairs program is examining the social impact of the current economic down turn on Ontario communities with such special guests as Richard Florida.
adminMarch 30, 2009
Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” has always had nice things to say about Madison, Wisconsin. Florida has long argued that communities which offer a stimulating working environment for creative people will thrive in the 21st century. This includes towns that embrace the arts, pop music, gay people and ethnic food.
adminMarch 30, 2009
The shakeout in global banking has untethered more than a quarter of a million people, most of them in New York and London, who thought they were in secure, well-paying jobs.
adminMarch 30, 2009
Bestselling author and urban theorist Richard Florida will present the opening keynote at 2009 National Association of Broadcasters’ Show on Monday, April 20 in Las Vegas.
adminMarch 30, 2009
In Richard Florida’s recent piece for the Atlantic, “How the Crash Will Reshape America,” he foresees a more concentrated population centered around cities, leading to the further expansion of mega-regions – systems of multiple cities and their surrounding suburbs – based on their ability to offer higher paying jobs and attract the best talent.
adminMarch 30, 2009
“The Suburbs Lose, The Sun Belt Fades, San Francisco Wins: How the Crash Will Reshape America.”
adminMarch 30, 2009
In this month’s Atlantic Monthly, Richard Florida’s piece “How the Crash Will Reshape America” argues that while New York City will be hobbled by the global financial melt-down, it will be in a better position than many other financial centers. A look at Denver’s position and the Create Denver Expo which provided workshops and seminars for local artists interested in learning more about the business, legal and marketing aspects of the creative industries and to meet others in their community exploring the same challenges.
adminMarch 30, 2009
Richard Florida to give opening keynote at National Association of Broadcaster’s conference in Las Vegas this year.
adminMarch 30, 2009
A look at Richard Florida’s article in The Globe and Mail revealing the argument that both the American and Canadian governments’ recent stimulus packages are doomed to failure.
adminMarch 30, 2009
PLACE matters. It affects your career chances, your choice of life partner, and, according to transplanted American economist Richard Florida, your chances for personal happiness and fulfillment.
adminMarch 30, 2009
In February, the Martin Prosperity Institute released a study of Ontario’s economy. Lead authors Richard Florida and Roger Martin suggested the future of “routine-oriented occupations that draw primarily on physical skills or abilities to follow a set formula” is a bleak one.
adminMarch 26, 2009
A conversation with Richard Florida about the importance of place and how the recession will reshape America’s cities.
adminMarch 26, 2009
Bestselling author and renowned business leader Richard Florida will present the 2009 National Association of Broadcasters’ Show opening keynote address, sponsored by Accenture, on Monday, April 20 in Las Vegas.
adminMarch 18, 2009
The First World Forum on Talent, which took place in Pamplona (Navarra, Spain) in February, was the chosen venue for the issuing of this Declaration.
Thought leaders such as Richard Florida and Sir Ken Robinson, international speakers from Europe, the United States, India, Latin America, and, representatives of the European Commission, and the OECD, among others, took part in the Forum.
adminMarch 17, 2009
The purpose of policy is to produce certain results, but, frequently, once in place, changes in policies are resisted even when conditions require them. Take two examples that have become more obvious in recent days, one with respect to health care, another to housing and home ownership.
adminMarch 16, 2009
Richard Floridais quick to distinguish between good gentrification and bad in discussing the city of Brooklyn and its hipness.
adminMarch 16, 2009
Richard Florida, and the much-anticipated Canadian edition of his bestselling book Who’s Your City?, can help you figure out if you’re in the right place at the right time to do what you do.
adminMarch 12, 2009
Richard Florida and this month’s Atlantic cover story in conjunction with Obama and the country’s state of affairs.
adminMarch 11, 2009
Homeownership has been a central tenet of a ‘richer and fuller life’ in the USA, but foreclosures are severely testing this model. A possible solution: Rent these homes as a first step toward a more affordable, flexible housing system.
adminMarch 10, 2009
When “creative class” economics guru Richard Florida spoke to the Star Tribune, he had one suggestion for how to boost Minneapolis through the recession: a high-speed train to Chicago.
adminMarch 8, 2009
In the current issue of The Atlantic, Florida examines the fates of U.S. cities such as Las Vegas in the post-recession era in an article titled “How the Crash Will Reshape America.”
adminMarch 6, 2009
As Minnesota struggles to weather the recession, how well its leaders protect the state’s most valuable assets — and position the region for growth — will determine its place in a reshaped American economy. Florida says Minneapolis-St. Paul “will still be standing” in 2030.
adminMarch 6, 2009
In March’s The Atlantic article, Florida argues that the suburbs present as much of a challenge for revitalization as the cities they surround.
adminMarch 5, 2009
In The Atlantic’s cover story entitled How the Crash Will Reshape America, Florida analyzes the changes, by geographic region, that he believes will come as a result of the current recession. Specifically, he predicts that certain cities and urban regions in the US will suffer a “body blow” from which they may never fully recover, while others will emerge stronger and more strategically relevant than before.
adminMarch 5, 2009
The Great Noosa Camp Out was the first of five projects to come from the Noosa Creative Alliance, developed from Richard Florida’s Creative Communities Leadership Program model. About 30 “catalysts’’ were chosen at the start of the Alliance last year to work on projects to boost Noosa’s economic prosperity by attracting and supporting creative industries.
adminMarch 2, 2009
Urbanist Jane Jacobs’ idea of the successful city is central to the theory — an adaptive place where new ideas and people gather in numbers and then are “tossed together in serendipitous ways,” as Seltzer puts it. This sort of open city attracts creative people, according to the research of author Richard Florida, especially young creative people. And the more of them, the better-placed a city is for the next economy.
adminMarch 2, 2009
Florida evaluates the current financial crisis in the context of previous convulsive shifts in the development of capitalism in the U.S., starting with the late 19th century–the original Great Depression. He argues that different phases in capitalist development engender and are enabled by specific geographies.
adminMarch 1, 2009
This economic crisis is the perfect opportunity for us to get real about how our way of life is changing. But it seems there are many desperately clutching to the past.
adminMarch 1, 2009
In these tough economic times, it is sometimes hard to think of a silver lining. But Richard Florida – the man who coined the term “the creative class” – proposes an interesting one: that what is bad for financial services businesses may be good for artists and psychiatrists.
adminMarch 1, 2009
Renting has seldom looked so good as now, as homeownership is increasingly associated with instability and fear.
adminMarch 1, 2009
Less than a month after taking office, the Obama administration unveiled its massive stimulus package aimed at recharging the lagging American economy – a staggering three-quarters of a trillion dollars. As the Harper administration rushes to dole out a $40-billion stimulus of its own, it’s high time to ask a simple question: Are we stimulating the right things?
adminMarch 1, 2009
There’s growing consensus this economic downturn is not only longer, deeper and nastier. It’s becoming clear this recession may prove transforming, potentially changing us personally, regionally, nationally — even globally — in fundamental ways.Once we emerge from this financial firestorm, the Tampa Bay area will have changed. And if it has not, maybe it should.
adminMarch 1, 2009
With unemployment climbing, tax collections plummeting, the real-estate market frozen and the population waning, Florida legislators convene the spring session at a pivotal moment.
adminMarch 1, 2009
In The Atlantic, economist Richard Florida takes a long view of the world economy. He says that long depressions are opportunities for the economy to reset itself. During these hard times, large numbers of people change their economic lives, taking the country into a new economic era.
adminFebruary 25, 2009
This month’s Atlantic cover story posits that L.A. is one of the relatively few American places ideally situated to rise from the ashes of the recession. That’s because L.A. is a high metabolism big city with a strong creative base, urban theorist Richard Florida argues.
adminFebruary 25, 2009
Lately some have been advocating that the government stop subsidizing home ownership, arguing that it locks people to a place, and when the economy goes sour people need the flexibility to go where the jobs are.
adminFebruary 25, 2009
At a conference in Pamplona, Spain, Richard Florida made it clear to ScienceGuide correspondent Roy van Dalm that countries pumping unlimited funds to prevent companies from going under doesn’t really get his approval.
adminFebruary 24, 2009
A look at Richard Florida’s article in March’s issue of The Atlantic by Dana Houle.
adminFebruary 23, 2009
Richard Florida, in The Atlantic Monthly article argues that the key to recovery from the housing bubble and financial crash is to remove homeownership “from its long-privileged place at the center of the U.S. economy.”
adminFebruary 23, 2009
Richard Koman suggests we are at an inflection point where we either withdraw into ourselves and exacerbate a deep depression or infuse society and the economy with the technology paradigms that should mark Western society in the 21st century.
adminFebruary 23, 2009
University of Toronto professor Florida argued in his groundbreaking 2002 book, The Rise of the Creative Class, that the young, urban creative types who are revitalizing cities tend to be far more socially liberal and tolerant of diversity than the average evangelical.
adminFebruary 22, 2009
Richard Florida’s thought provoking and revolutionary ideas about the future of housing and economic development.
adminFebruary 22, 2009
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