Richard Florida, author of “Who’s Your City?” and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, sees the gravitational pull away from Wall Street and toward more creative industries as part of a necessary economic recalibration.
Richard Florida visits Russia this month and discusses the country’s push to develop more of a market-based economy, having abandoned its state-run economy to the historical dustbin as well as drawing upon the similarities between the youth of both Russia and the U.S.
This article by Richard Florida seeks to shed light on the factors that shape the organization of scientific research in profit-seeking enterpises.
The study has explored the factors driving globalization in the automotive industry and has begun the task of exploring the effect of globalization on the quality, quantity and location of jobs in that industry.
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You.
The differing ways a recession affects Ontarians working in different sectors of the economy is the focus of the Martin Prosperity Institute research bulletin presented today to Michael Bryant, Minister of Economic Development, for the Government of Ontario.
The Rise of the Creative Class, one of Gary Hamel’s recommendations that “telescope the future or send our minds racing down new tracks.”
Toronto-based urban theorist Richard Florida believes Ontario’s economy is at a turning point. He was asked by Premier Dalton McGuinty to map a path to long-term economic success.
The relationship between economic growth and a strong arts presence in a community has really been stirred up by Richard Florida’s book The Rise of the Creative Class.
Leading intellectuals including urban planning experts, architects, senior governmental advisors, municipality officials and CEOs of major corporations have been confirmed as speakers for the 2009 edition of Global City being held 7 – 8 April, 2009 at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi.
The first in a series of three columns on The Creative Economy written by Couleur NB President David Hawkins.
Kevin Stolarik who works closely with Richard Florida spends a lot of time thinking about cities, the people who live there and why they live there.
In Who’s Your City, I make an argument about the importance of “place” in the global economy and how it is creating a spiky world…
Restarting economic growth this time around will require a new social and economic framework that is in line with the new idea-driven economy.
Richard Florida and James Milay explore the the effects if a recession hits Canada suggesting that the continuing shift in Canada’s economy from traditional blue-collar, working-class jobs to creative and service jobs will dampen the effects of job losses over all, but those in the working class will feel the pain much more.
According to Richard Florida, jobs are moving to people, not the other way around and our fundamental notions about the economy are not holding up.
Richard Florida warns of an extended period of volatility and conflict in American politics.
Gainesville is frequently described as a creative community by its leaders due to its university, artistic, and technological influences. Who’s Your City? and how it applies to Gainesville.
A municipality can spark the creativity of its community, as well as attract the entrepreneurial “creative class,” by investing in projects that offer a sense of style, place and opportunity for self-expression, Dr. Richard Florida told municipal and community leaders at an event hosted by the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce, the University Partnership Centre at Georgian College, Downtown Barrie and the city.
Richard Florida and Gail Lord explain why cities, and their cultural institutions, are the 21st century’s engines of prosperity.
Richard Florida believes Montreal region’s lumbering government structures are holding the region back. He cited them as one cause of Montreal’s oft-cited immobilism.
Professor Florida makes an impassioned plea, using his first book, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), as a jump start, for the U.S. to retain its stature as an open and welcoming home for talent.
Following up on The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), Florida argues that if America continues to make it harder for some of the world’s most talented students and workers to come here, they’ll go to other countries eager to tap into their creative capabilities—as will American citizens fed up with what they view as an increasingly repressive environment.
Richard Florida’s take on Montreal and it’s position amidst the current economic storm.
Richard Florida speaks at the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 in Detroit, Michigan suggesting market turmoil is a sign of fundamental economic change.
Richard Florida is an expert on the role that cities play in economic growth. In his best-selling books The Rise of the Creative Class, The Flight of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City?, he argues that the strength of the 21st century economy lies in tapping the power of cities as places where creative people live and work.
Great cities speed up their metabolic rate to defy the previous generation’s imagination.
Richard Florida says New Brunswick may be lightly populated and relatively rural, but the province is well positioned both economically and geographically to do well in a continually shifting fiscal and social climate.
Leading social theorist Richard Florida believes New Brunswick’s cities need more creative people.
A study, by professor John Solow in the Tippie College of Business, ranks all of Iowa’s 99 counties in a Creativity Index based on the one developed by economist Richard Florida, author of the national bestseller “The Rise of the Creative Class.”
In 2002, with his best-selling book The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida kick-started a national conversation about cities can attract the kind of people that will help them grow and compete.
Where we choose to live is one of the most important decisions we make in life, according to Richard Florida.
A new study by a University of Iowa economics professor suggests that Iowa counties with a higher concentration of people who are part of the so-called “creative class” have stronger prospects for economic growth.
In this edition of Global Business Peter Day hears from Professor Richard Florida of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Canada, where he’s the Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute.
Given the chance to upgrade neighborhoods, live closer to family or relocate for a better job, many people wouldn’t hesitate. Last year, close to 40 million people moved in the United States, according to U.S. Census data released this month.
Richard Florida asserts in his book The Rise of the Creative Class that today’s regional economic growth is driven by the location choices of creative people, who prefer places that are diverse, tolerant, and open to new ideas.
The proposed ‘new media’ Ignition Festival being planned for Noosa early next year, could spawn the first creative company to come out of the Noosa Creative Alliance project being mentored by well-known international academic Richard Florida.
Florida’s public policy-makers must recognize that mega-regions are the engines of the newglobal economy. They must support Florida’s mega — the 15th largest in the world.
In recent years, Florida has carved a niche for himself raising the class consciousness of graphic designers, software engineers, research scientists, business entrepreneurs, writers and academics and assorted other people involved in intellectual forms of work.
Florida argues that where you lives affects everything from how much money you make to how happy you are.
Florida points to growth and economic dominance of “mega-regions” as his premise and notes in his book’s sub-title that “the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life.”
The success of a city depends as much on its ‘personality’ as other contributing factors.
New Hampshire and Maine — from Portland south — are considered the “northern edge” of the 500-mile Boston-Washington, D.C., corridor that Richard Florida, author and professor at the University of Toronto’s Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, has found generates $2.2 trillion in economic activity.
Florida’s main premise in Who’s Your City? is that the world is, in fact, “spiky,” and people make very deliberate decisions about where they live based upon a number of factors.
One of the most interesting and relevant aspects of Who’s Your City? is the interdisciplinary nature of Richard Florida’s research.
For generations of suburban kids raised in traffic, mixed-use and mass transit will define the future.
Globalization and technology have created new options of working from anywhere, but that hasn’t de-emphasized the importance of where a worker lives. Arguably, place is becoming more important.
Reprinted and/or posted with the permission of Daily Journal Corp. (2008)
In Who’s Your City? Richard Florida explains why happiness and the place you live are intrinsically linked.
Throughout and since his successful campaign for Lexington mayor, Jim Newberry has cited the writings of urban studies theorist Richard Florida, whose best-selling Rise of the Creative Class has contributed to a surge of urban revitalization efforts from coast to coast.
Perhaps the most influential in terms of its impact on modern urban planning is US academic Richard Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class, first published in 2002.
We assume in an age of globalization that it doesn’t matter where you live: Technology allows us to do our jobs from home, be it on a tropical beach or in a rural community. Best-selling author and urbanologist Richard Florida disagrees.
Richard Florida suggests that the big sort poses huge implications for US economic competitiveness and a wide range of domestic economic and social issues.
A popular economic development guru believes that a region’s tolerance and diversity, its quality of life and its support for what he describes as the “creative class” pave the way for economic and population growth. According to Richard Florida: “The distinguishing characteristic of the creative class is that its members engage in work whose function is to ‘create meaningful new forms.’ “
… but not for the reasons you think. One of the few things increasing as fast as the price of oil lately has been the amount of commentary linking higher energy costs to the death of suburbia. Clearly, higher gas prices have affected where people want – or can afford – to live. Just as the demand for SUVs plummets and consumers have finally begun to see the point of hybrids, people are turning away from sprawling exurbs toward urban neighbourhoods and inner suburbs.
Florida finds that communities with large number of gays and lesbians and artists project an image of tolerance, openness and diversity which attracts creative people of all types. Where there is a large talent pool of such people, business thrives.
Bestselling author, academic, and prominent public intellectual Richard Florida talks to Joseph Planta about his latest book, Who’s Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life (Random House, 2008).
For the first time ever, says author and Toronto University’s Business and Creativity Professor Richard Florida, many of us have the freedom and economic means to choose our place — and the opportunity to find the place that fits us best is even more important than choosing a career or even a spouse.
Florida offers the premise that most people do not put nearly the same amount of effort in choosing where they want to live as they do in choosing a spouse and choosing a career, but that location seems to be more predictive of our all-round personal happiness.
Cities inevitably, consistently, and dispiritingly punch below their weight politically. City-dwellers, as such, have almost no say in national politics, and invariably end up subsidizing the increasingly-anachronistic lifestyles of their rural compatriots.
A Sustainable Streets program will be launched in Peregian June 28 with the Green Sunshine project rallying participants for the Living Smart Homes Program.
The producers of the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 (CCS2) announced the participation of Dr. Richard Florida as a special lunch keynote speaker for Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The Richard Florida inspired Noosa Creative Alliance Catalyst program is making headway with plans to promote creative industries across the Sunshine Coast.
Ken Gray examines how Ottawa performs on urban critic Richard Florida’s guide to choosing your home
Richard Florida on NPR says many of us have the freedom and economic means to choose our place — and the opportunity to find the place that fits us best is even more important than choosing a career or even a spouse.
“Who’s Your City” is about the places we choose to live and about how we have considerable opportunity to think strategically about this life decision.
What matters now is quality of place, defined as the intersection of three key elements of our cities: what’s there, who’s there and what’s going on.
A mega-region needs to think and act like a mega-region, not like a bunch of separate cities with empty space between them.
According to American sociologist Richard Florida, it was the “creative class” that swung victory for Barack Obama in the recent US Democratic nominations.
Richard Florida in Vancouver speaking at the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Richard Florida says Vancouver is poised to become one of the creative cities of the world.
Author Richard Florida argues that for people in creative fields, it’s important to live near each other in order to spark innovation and drive regional economies.
Writing about the rise of regions as economic powerhouses, Florida outlined the essence of what has made some regions prosperous, while others have languished behind. It comes down to attracting and keeping those who are creative and those who are willing to take risks.
Greenlight Greater Portland, a privately funded economic development group, issued a “prosperity index” today that compared the metro area with nine other western cities and touted its robust economic prospects during the next five years.
Florida comes to Portland to help launch Greenlight Greater Portland, a new regional economic development initiative.
Florida addresses group of 500 Portland area business and government leaders gathering to discuss a regional economic report issued by Greenlight Greater Portland.
Richard Florida took on Thomas Friedman and challenged his notion that the world is flat – suggesting instead that it is “spiky” by pointing out that the real economic activity happens within cities, not countries and that it DOES matter where you live even though technology has seemingly made it easier to do business anywhere.
“We are the creative hub of Tallahassee where visual artists, performance artists, small businesses and entrepreneurs can find a place to showcase their work in an 18-hour downtown environment,” Costigan said of Gaines Street.
Fareed Zakaria: The end result will be a “landscape that is quite different from the one we have lived in until now – one defined and directed from many places and by many peoples.”
“…we are experiencing modern history’s third great power shift, after the rise of the West from the 15th century on and then the rise of the U.S. in the 19th century.”
Leaders exploring new approaches to everything from education, crime and smoking bans to environment and climate change – even bringing modern management techniques to government. Their efforts and those of their peers have made their jurisdictions safer, smarter, greener, more aesthetic, more efficient, wealthier and more globally competitive.
Richard Florida, international best-selling author of Who’s Your City and The Rise of the Creative Class will address 500 business and community leaders on Wednesday, June 4, at the Portland Art Museum.
Florida maintains that where you decide to live has far-reaching consequences, and as the title suggests, this decision may be the most important one that you ever make.
Suspecting that happiness might be impacted by psychological as well as the economic and sociological factors he had been studying for years, Richard Florida in his newest book, Who’s Your City, explores this connection between personality and where we live.
According to Florida, Toronto-Buffalo-Rochester (TBR) is one of just 40 significant mega-regions in the world.
As award-winning author Richard Florida writes, Toronto is one of only a handful of cities in the world that sit on the front burner of the rise of the creative class.
Urban-life guru Richard Florida talks about mega-regions, the future of the Portrait Gallery and the reasons Ottawa can’t rest on its laurels
O guru do conceito das cidades criativas. As ideias, a criatividade, a cultura são essenciais para o desenvolvimento
económico, diz o americano Richard Florida, que apresenta hoje, na
Fundação Gulbenkian, a teoria dos três T (tecnologia, talento e tolerância)
como chave do desenvolvimento económico das regiões. A Lisboa deixa
um conselho: explorar aquilo que a distingue.
Richard Florida, criador da economia criativa, afirma que barreiras à tolerância e à liberdade de expressão
individual prejudicam o país para acolher atividades econômicas em larga escala. Lisboa, 17 abr (Lusa) – O criador da economia criativa, Richard Florida, disse nesta quinta-feira que a
“mentalidade antiquada” tem sido um entrave para o desenvolvimento do seu modelo em Portugal. O economista norte-americano apontou barreiras à tolerância e à liberdade de expressão individual como principais causadores dessa “mentalidade” no país.
Revista de Imprensa 18-04-2008
1 – Jornal de Negócios, 18-04-2008, “Portugal é formado por dois países: Portugal e Lisboa”. 2 – Primeira Página.pt, 17-04-2008, “Guru” da economia criativa diz que Portugal tem sido travado por uma “mentalidade antiquada”. 3 – RTP Online.pt, 17-04-2008, “Guru” da economia criativa diz que Portugal tem sido travado por uma “mentalidade antiquada”. 4 – Sol.pt, 17-04-2008, ´Guru´ da economia criativa diz que Portugal tem sido travado por «mentalidade antiquada»
As ideias, a criatividade, a cultura são essenciais para o desenvolvimento económico, diz o americano Richard Florida, que apresenta hoje, na Fundação Gulbenkian, a teoria dos três T (tecnologia, talento e tolerância) como chave do desenvolvimento económico das regiões. A Lisboa deixa um conselho: explorar aquilo que a distingue.
El nuevo libro de Florida … inicia citando a Aristóteles “Si todo lo que existe tiene un lugar, entonces también el lugar tendrá un lugar y así hasta el infinito”. Florida nos demuestra una vez más que el mundo no es tan plano como pensábamos.
Nur Wissensindustrien sind für die Globalisierung gewappnet: Das hat der Norden begriffen.
Richard Florida cites Ventura as one of the top cities to live in his new book, Who’s Your City?
There’s more than a grain of truth to the stereotype of the friendly, outgoing Midwesterner, says Richard Florida’s Who’s Your City?
This essay is an excerpt from Richard Florida’s article “The Rise of the Creative Class,” which originally appeared in the Washington Monthly magazine.
WE ARE ALL familiar with the rough geography of the United States — the slash of the Rocky Mountains between two great coastlines, the bulge of Maine, the Florida peninsula, the Great Lakes, set in the heartland. But what about the country’s psychogeography?
Richard Florida appears as part of Stirring Culture, the Alberta College of Art and Design’s speaker series. In his latest, Who’s Your City, Florida explores the idea that mega regions have replaced countries as the primary economic drivers of the global economy.
Richard Florida speaks as part of the Alberta College of Art and Design’s Stirring Culture series
The most overlooked — but most important — element of my theory and of the creative economy itself is that every human being is creative.
“The diversity, of whatever kind, that is generated by cities rests on the fact that in cities so many people are so close together, and among them contain so many different tastes, skills, needs, supplies, and bees in their bonnets.”
From where I sit, Philadelphia’s future looks very bright. Trust me: I know all about the issues that confront the city. I grew up in New Jersey, went to Rutgers, and spent much of my teens and 20s hanging out in Center City. I’ve seen the dark days and watched the recovery.
Author Richard Florida looks at America’s “psychogeography” and says personality types tend to cluster—and that understanding those clusters can help us understand the economies and futures of different regions.
Aaron Hotfelder recently interviewed Professor Florida about why the choice of where to live is more important than ever, why it’s a decision so often overlooked, and how to find the perfect city for you.
Psychologists have shown that human personalities can be classified along five key dimensions. Each of these dimensions has been found to affect key life outcomes. It turns out these personality types are not spread evenly across the country. They cluster and how they cluster tells us much.
WE ARE ALL familiar with the rough geography of the United States – the slash of the Rocky Mountains between two great coastlines, the bulge of Maine, the Florida peninsula, the Great Lakes, set in the heartland. But what about the country’s psychogeography?
For The Realtor.Com Addict Who Dreams Of Living Somewhere Else-If She Could Only Figure Out Where
The Creative Region Initiative was launched with the help of Richard Florida who urges communities to develop a creative class of artists and engineers, musicians and high-tech workers — people who think and create for a living — in order to thrive economically.
Over the past decade or so, greater Portland has developed a well-deserved reputation as one of the nation’s very best places to live.
A Youth festival, green sunshine projects, increased success for young businesses, a more vibrant artistic community and communication channels to promote each of them will be put into place in Noosa over the course of the next year.
Stage III of Noosa’s Creative Communities project was held at Noosaville, with 30 of the region’s best and brightest taking part in a two-day Creative Communities Leadership Program workshop designed to identify some key initiatives to generate greater economic prosperity.
North Texas has 46,300 more single men than single women – the fourth-largest male surplus in the country.
Florida — social theorist, geographer, urban planner and guru of the globalization debate — believes the place we choose to live has more of a bearing on future success and happiness than the more micro-level decisions of career and relationships.
” Who’s Your City? is another breakthrough idea by urban life genius Richard Florida. If you are contemplating a move or know someone who is, or are even vaguely interested in the idea of place as self, this book is a must read.”
Everyone has heard the theory by now: Thanks to the Internet and other high-tech elements of globalization, the world is flat. That is, economic forces are increasingly spread across a world without boundaries, helped by everything from faster transportation to the Web.
Seattle already has the ingredients of what author Richard Florida calls a superstar city: an abundance of talent, knowledge industries, tolerance and the kind of dense, urban fabric that encourages the creative class to thrive.
“If everything that exists has a place, place too will have a place, and so on ad infinitum.” — Aristotle. It’s not very often that the author of a book discussing economics and sociology for a general readership starts with a quote by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. But when the writer is the thought-provoking intellectual Richard Florida — who claims in his new book, “Who’s Your City?,” that the selection of where to live ranks as life’s most important decision — it’s easier to see why he found Aristotle’s quote both appropriate and prescient.
If you’re a single woman in the Valley, it might be your fault.
A new study shows that there are 65,330 more single men than women, age 20 to 64, in Phoenix. In fact, the entire West is awash with single men, according to figures in a new book, Who’s Your City? by Richard Florida.
When people talk about economic competitiveness, the focus tends to be on nation states. In the 1980s, many were obsessed with the rise of Japan. Today, our gaze has shifted to the phenomenal growth of Brazil, Russia, India and China. But this focus on nations is off the mark.
Richard Florida with his naming of the “Creative Class” has become a popular economist. His talent at forseeing what class has risen and will continue to rise is discussed in The Rise of the Creative Class. At the heart of economics is a city’s center.
“Success and contentment may depend as much on choice of location as on choice of spouse or job”.
WHICH OF THESE two decisions do you think has a bigger impact on someone’s life: finding the right job, or finding the right significant other? No one’s going to argue with the notion that where you live affects your employment prospects. But the place you call home has a lot to do with your chances of finding the right partner as well. Having an enticing “mating market” matters as much or more than a vibrant labor market.
If Dayton wanted to impress somebody, it could do worse than Richard Florida.
Recently, he gave an interview in which he said:
“I was just in Cincinnati and in Dayton, another city I love. They’re historical centers of innovation … from steel innovation to aluminum innovation, to electronics, to the Wright brothers, to the car. This is one of the greatest innovative and entrepreneurial centers in the world.
“They have probably one of the greatest clusters of universities in the history of the planet. They’re producing phenomenal talent, but, unfortunately, that talent leaves. …
“The party that can bring together the working class and the creative class is likely to build a lasting majority”
Richard Florida wants us to add another dynamic to the life-altering decisions we make: where we live
Considering your next big career move? In exclusive excerpts from his new book, “Who’s Your City?,” Richard Florida explains why that decision should be all about location, location, location — and profiles the top new regions for great jobs and companies.
Which cities have a surplus of single men (or women)- and what that means for the country
Thriving economies best grow from places that benefit from tolerance, inclusiveness in culturally rich, creative environments
Economic development officials are increasingly concentrating on the types of jobs created, in this case, engineering and the Rock River Valley’s economy.
For the past two weeks, all eyes have focused on Barack Obama and race. A couple of weeks ago, it was Hillary Clinton’s gender. A month before that, it was all about the Obama surge among young voters.
Book review by The Candaian Press that says forget flat world theory of globalization
Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” gave an interview recently in which he said great things about Dayton. Florida’s Toronto-based consulting group is working with the region’s creative-class types to imagine, organize and realize initiatives that excite especially young and talented people, but that also make a community a better place for everybody.
According to Richard Florida, “the good life can be found in places like Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Grand Haven, and Holland”, Michigan.
“People and Institutions. Education, Demographics, Human Geography, Humanity, Communities, Families, etc”
Richard Florida urges the US to prepare its children with a comprehensive education translating into jobs not only in computer science and software programming but also in market research and the development of new financial instruments.
Memphis, TN had a new kind of blues. Despite its rich history and amenities, and strong economic engines such as the FedEx headquarters, the city was losing annual job earnings, mainly because it could not hold on to young, bright talent. The 2000 census showed that Memphis’ population grew by 6,000 since 1995, but its net income had dropped by $90 million.
Worcester is one of the best cities to raise a family according to Richard Florida
“…the most entertaining chapter addresses America’s distribution of what psychologists call the “big five personality traits”:
Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada compiled by Maclean’s magazine.
The Goal of Rotman’s MIHNEA Moldoveanu is to create a new breed of business leader.
Richard Florida has brought big urban thinking to Canada? Will prosperity follow?
“Who’s Your City? is an emotional call to action for people to live in cities and towns that best suit their personalities” says the Australian Financial Review.
Who’s Your City? ranks in at 2nd best seller by the West Side Barnes and Noble in El Paso.
‘Economic Geographer’ Richard Florida says location matters more than ever in today’s global economy, which is powered by a surprisingly small number of places.
We make three critical choices in our modern, globalized lives. One’s job: What to do? One’s partner: Who to do it with? One’s home: Where to live?
Toronto Globe and Mail-Richard Florida always believed the world was shaped primarily by social and economic factors. Then he discovered the central role played by psychology.
How places are experiencing unprecedented decline and threaten to become tomorrow’s slums.
Today on Word of Mouth, writer and researcher Richard Florida tells us why picking a place to live may be the most important decision we ever make.
Richard Florida believes creative people come in all colours and that they are the key to the new economy. If he didn’t already have a catchy name, Richard Florida could easily be dubbed Mr. T. His celebrated theory of economic prosperity is based on Four T’s. And it was his T for Tolerance that landed the personable American professor in Capital T Trouble when he flew into Noosa last November and media coverage played the gay card.
New Hampshire Union Leader Staff, Benjamin Kepple comments on Manchester’s rankings per Who’s Your City?
For decades we’ve heard that new transport and communication technologies – from the street car to the Internet – would make geography and place irrelevant…
It’s a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn’t matter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen or a beachhouse in Provence as in the office of a Silicon Valley startup.
The 32 local “creative class catalysts,” the moniker given to volunteers given to grow a creative class in Dayton and Springfield areas, announced five initiatives for spurring the area’s economy
NOOSA and the Sunshine Coast are among Australia’s leaders when it comes to attracting and retaining creative talent, according to the findings of a research report commissioned by the Noosa Creative Alliance.
The way we house people today seems a bit out of sync with other demands of our highly mobile and flexible economy.
Hamburg May 2008 – Identity Management : Richard Florida Keynote Speaker. In a globalized world, the importance of place will increase rather than vanish. Where we live is becoming an increasingly important aspect of our lives.
Richard Florida ranks St. Lucia 4 out of 5 for best places for retirees to live in new book, “Who’s Your City?”
…this thought-provoking and seminal work will surely be studied, not only by scholars but more importantly by consumers pondering a move…
This research note authored by Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander is part of a large scale project on the music industry and system.
Nations have long been considered the fundamental economic units of the world, but that distinction no longer holds true. Today, the natural units -and engines- of the global economy are megaregions, cities and suburbs in powerful conurbations, at times spanning national borders, forming vast swaths of trade, transport, innovation and talent.
In an exclusive excerpt, the guru of the Creative Class explains the peaks and valleys of the global economy.
The old model of a university pumping out research results and educated students, or even commercial innovations and start-ups, are no longer sufficient. Business and political leadership have taken technology seriously; now, they must do the same with talent and tolerance. The places that don’t will find that the discoveries and talent they produce will continue to migrate away.
In January 1992, Carnegie Mellon University undertook a project, in collaboration with the Technology Development and Education Corporation, called “Design for High Performance Manufacturing Infrastructure”. The objective of the project was to analyze and invigorate the supplier base and manufacturing infrastructure of Southwestern Pennsylvania…
What is the role of venture capital in industrial competitiveness? On the one hand, venture capital has played a crucial role in the emergence of innovative entrepreneurial enterprises and high-technology regions such as Silicon Valley and Boston’s Route 128 corridor. On the other hand, a number of commentators have suggested that venture capital contributes to a pattern of chronic entrepreneurship and the breakthrough illusion of U.S. high technology which have a negative implications for U.S. technological and industrial competitiveness.
The research that led to this report was commissioned by the Council of Great Lakes Governors in 1992 to provide a fresh look at the competitiveness of the Great Lakes Economy. The goal was to identify strategic areas in which collaboration among business and government leaders could accelerate the economic revitalization that had begun.
A Report by the Sustainable Economic Development Project. H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Carnegie Mellon University. For the Sustainable Pittsburgh Initiative.
Dr. Richard Florida, Mark Atlas. H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA
The Project. The report that follows is the product of the Urban Competitiveness Systems Synthesis Project of the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.
Wherever one looks -in semiconductors, computers or biotechnology- the story is the same: The United States achieves a commanding lead in basic research, develops the start-up companies that pioneer cutting edge technologies, and then somehow fails to follow trough, leaving nations like Japan to mass-produce the products that the world wants.
Venture capital investment is a critical component of high technology economic growth. Although investment is perhaps the most important dimension of venture capital activity, there is virtually no literature on it…
The research upon which this chapter is based was undertaken in three parts. The first part involved the compilation of a comprehensive database of transplant assemblers and suppliers in the US…
Picture America. What do you see? The hustle and bustle of New York with Wall Street, the theatre district and bohemian neighbourhoods…
Since the early 1980s, State, local and regional economic development strategies have faced an accelerating pace of technological change, new patterns of work and production organization. The globalization of technology and markets is transforming economic development as we know it.
Housing finance provides telling insights into the political economy of any advanced industrial economy. It is integral to the performance of capital markets, reflective of the role of the state in the economy and illustrative of the priority placed on producing affordable housing.
The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S. by Martin Kenney and Richard Florida
In this paper, the comparative responses of the USA and Japan to the rise of the new high-technology industries are examined. The United States pattern mainly revolves around the rise of high-technology districts like Silicon Valley and Route 128 which comprise dense networks of small entrepreneurial firms and other related institutions.
Capitalism is undergoing an epochal transformation from a mas-production system where the principal source of value was physical labour to a new era of innovation-mediated production where the principal component of value creation, productivity and economic growth is knowledge and intellectual capabilities.
This is the first in a series of articles in which The Globe and Mail visits an iconic Toronto neighbourhood or event with Richard Florida.
Richard Florida on his adopted city’s central role in a new world order built not around nations but around mega-regions.
Spark Con, a creative conference in Raleigh and how Richard’s ideas play a role
By Richard Florida, Across the Board: the Conference Board Magazine – Sept 1994
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Industrial Relations Journal – Autumn 1991
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Journal of the American Planning Association – Winter 1992
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Chronicle of Higher Education – July 1991
By Richard Florida, Martin Kenney and Andrew Mair, Economic Development Commentary – Winter 1988
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, California Management Review – Spring 1991
By Richard Florida, Prevision: Journal of the Japan Association for Management Research – 1994
By Richard Florida, Book Chapter in Financing Entrepreneurs by Cynthia Beltz (editor) – 1994
Marshall Feldman and Richard Florida, Book Chapter in Government and Housing: Developments in Seven Countries. Urban Affairs Annual Reviews no. 36 by Willem van Vliet and Jan van Weesep (editors) – 1990
By Martin Kenney and Richard Florida, Hitotsubashi Journal of Commerce and Management – Dec 1989
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, The World & I – Oct 1991
Article Disabled by gnz in favor of optimized version.
By Richard Florida, Project Report in Collaboration with the Great Lakes Council of Governors – Dec 1992
By Wesley Cohen, Richard Florida and Richard Goe, Carnegie Mellon University – July 1994
By Wesley Cohen, Richard Florida and Lucien Randazzese, Report to the National Academy of Engineering – Sept 1995
By Richard Florida, Book Review of Behind the Silicon Curtain by Dennis Hayes, Economic Geography – 1991
By Robert Burchell, James Carr, Richard Florida, and James Nemeth, Center for Urban Policy Research – 1984
By Robert Burchell, James Carr, Richard Florida, and James Nemeth, Center for Urban Policy Research – 1984
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, New Technology, Work and Employment – March 1991
By Richard Florida and Donald F. Smith, Jr., Economic Development Quarterly – 1990
By Richard Florida, ICTTE Technology Proceedings, 1988 International Congress on Technology and Technology Exchange – Oct 1988
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, The New York Times, Sunday Business Page – Feb 10, 1991
By Richard Florida, book chapter in Foreign Direct Investment, in Cynthia Beltz (editor), Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute – 1995
By Richard Florida, Report for the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC: National Research Council, Committee on Japan – 1998
By Richard Florida and Gary Gates, Brookings Institution, Center for Urban and Metropolitan Policy – June 2001
Richard Florida, Derek Davison, and Matthew Cline, Report to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection – June 1999
By Richard Florida, Research Policy – 1999
By Richard Florida and Davis Jenkins, book chapter in Between Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer and Hybridization of Production Systems in the International Automobile Industry, Steven Tolliday (editor). Oxford University Press – 1998
By Richard Florida and Lewis Branscomb, book chapter in Investing in Innovation: Creating and Research and Innovation Policy That Works, Lewis Branscomb and James Keller (editors), MIT Press – 1998
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, book chapter in Social Reconstructions of the World Automobile Industry: Competition, Power, and Industrial Flexibility, Frederick Deyo (editor), Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press – 1997
By Wesley Cohen, Richard Florida, Lucien Randazzese, and John Walsh, book chapter in Challenge to the Research University, Roger Noll (editor), Brookings Institution – 1998
By Mark Atlas and Richard Florida, Book Chapter in Green Manufacturing, Richard Dorf (editor), Handbook of Technology Management. CRC Press – 1998
By Davis Jenkins and Richard Florida, book chapter in Remade in America: Japanese Manufacturing Transformed, Paul Adler, Mark Fruin, and Jeffrey Liker (editors), Oxford University Press – March 1997
By Richard Florida and Mark Samber, The New Industrial Geography: Regions, Regulation and Institutions – Jan 1999
By Richard Florida, book chapter in Industrializing Knowledge, Lewis Branscomb and Furnio Kodama (editors), MIT Press – Feb 1999
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, book chapter Organizational Capabilities, in Richard Nelson (editor), Oxford University Press – 2001
By Richard Florida and Derek Davison, book chapter in Going Private: Environmental Management Systems and the New Policy Agenda edited by Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash – 2001
Richard Florida (editor), New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research – 1986
Lewis Branscomb, Fumio Kodama, and Richard Florida (editors) – Cambridge: MIT Press -1999
Feature piece on Omaha, NE includes an interview with Richard Florida – April 2007
This report by Richard Florida, Brian Knudsen, and Kevin Stolarick investigates how the density of a specific class of workers, the “creative class”, affects metropolitan innovation.
By Richard Florida and Donald F. Smith Jr., Issues in Science and Technology – June 1993
The Unites States built the most powerful economy by producing and attracting human capital. Is America throwing that advantage away?
By Richard Florida and Tracy Gordon, A Report prepared for the Environmental City Network and Sustainable Pittsburgh – Jan 1999
By Timothy Sturgeon and Richard Florida – A study by Carnegie Mellon University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Final Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation – March 2000
By Richard Florida, A report prepared for the Regional Plan Association and the Civic Alliance – April 2002
By Meric S. Gertler, Richard Florida, Gary Gates, Tara Vinodrai – A report prepared for the Ontario Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity, and Innovation and the Institute for Competitiveness and Creativity – Nov 2002
Ken-ichi IMAI (Director of the Board, Stanford Japan Center), Japanese Institute of Global Communications – March 2004
This paper by Richard Florida and Kevin Stolarick examines the specific interactions among the creative, technical, business, and design communities of the Montreal region.
