Catalyst asks Richard to share his insights on the ‘multiplier’ effect of the creative class and why local public officials should leverage arts and culture as policy tools for fostering unique and thriving communities from the ground up.
SKIFT speaks with Florida after the Start Up City Miami event to hear how this urban disruption in downtown cores is impacting cities as tourism destinations, and how tourism bureaus can potentially shift their narrative to support them better.
The Martin Prosperity Institute, urban guru Richard Florida’s think tank, released a report full of maps offering a new lens to look at cities through. “The Divided City and the Shape of the New Metropolis” uses census data to highlight residential neighborhoods in U.S. by class.
A new analysis from Richard Florida on how the creative class is dividing cities.
Today’s highly mobile knowledge workers–the key to economic growth in a global economy where the talent and skills of the workforce is a prime difference-maker–choose where to live more for the qualities communities offer than for specific job-related reasons.
Florida’s 2002 bestseller, “The Rise of the Creative Class,” has sparked many debates about the relative importance of creativity to the economic health of cities. In his new book, “The Rise of the Creative Class — Revisited,” Florida reiterates, updates and expands on his bottom line: “Cities need a people climate as much, and perhaps even more, than they need a business climate.” Paul Fanlund interviews Richard Florida asking him a series of Madison-centric questions.
Florida speaks at COSI at the 2012 Innovate Columbus event presented by TechColumbus and the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. Columbus Underground’s Walker had the opportunity to chat with Richard to learn a bit more about how his ideas apply specifically to Columbus, and to preview what we can expect during his presentation.
In April 2003, Richard Florida inspired a business audience at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center with an idea that regional economies that encourage diversity, innovation and arts will, in turn, attract smart and more talented people. That will lure more competitive businesses looking to hire such folks.
For the past year, Richard Florida and his Creative Class Group have partnered with UT Arlington to examine the region’s assets and challenges. The effort engaged representatives from the School of Architecture, the College of Education and Health Professions, and the School of Urban and Public Affairs, with input from major chambers of commerce, local elected officials, Vision North Texas, the North Texas Commission, and civic groups.
For the past year the Creative Class Group has partnered with UT Arlington to examine the region’s assets and challenges. The joint effort engaged representatives from the School of Architecture, the College of Education and Health Professions, and the School of Urban and Public Affairs, with input from major chambers of commerce, local elected officials, Vision North Texas, the North Texas Commission, and civic groups.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
The merging of the Noosa Creative Alliance and the Sunshine Coast to create the Sunshine Coast Regional Alliance in Noosa, Australia.
The merging of the Noosa Creative Alliance and the Sunshine Coast to create the Sunshine Coast Regional Alliance in Noosa, Australia.
“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.”
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.
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.
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)
The conclusion of the two-day Creative Communities Leadership Program seminar in Roanoke with four fantastic initiatives.
Creative Class Group led CCLP for the city of Roanoke with a 2 day seminar called the Roanoke Creative Communities Leadership Program.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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?
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?
