A few weeks ago, on social media, President Trump wrote, “I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA.”
Woven City is Toyota’s 176-acre city where it tests new technology and ideas about the future of the urban environment. And it holds lessons for how any city can innovate.
The Trump administration is weighing a series of measures to support families and reverse the US’s plunging birth rate. But if the country truly wants to confront its birth rate crisis, it must go beyond incentives and make family-friendliness a national priority. American cities are at the heart of that challenge. They are among the world’s most inhospitable places for families and children — and that must change.
The rush to declare urban areas dead was brain-dead. Here’s why. In the spring of 2020, as the gravity and extent of the pandemic’s disruptions sank in, the chorus began. “New York City is dead forever,” one prominent commentator wrote. “San Francisco is the next Detroit — the handwriting is on the wall,” another declared. Urban office towers stood empty, downtown streets were deserted and doomsday forecasts abounded. With the rise of work-from-home, the cynics insisted, we were witnessing the beginning of the end of America’s dense, vibrant, economically essential cities.
Mark Carney rode to victory on a wave of anti-Trump sentiment, promising Canadians greater independence from the United States. Tapping into Canadians’ deep frustration with Mr. Trump’s tariffs and threats to national sovereignty, he told voters that the era of depending on the U.S. for trade and national security was over.
Rana Florida is CEO of The Creative Class Group, founded by her husband world renowned urbanist Richard Florida. It is a global advisory firm composed of expert researchers, academics, and business strategists. Their proprietary data and research, gives companies and regions leading insights to achieve growth and prosperity.
Dr. Richard Florida is a world-renowned American urban theorist and public intellectual who focuses on social and economic theory. He’s a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a Distinguished Fellow of the NYU School of Professional Studies. Over the years, Florida has tried his hand at many roles, from teaching the next generation of academics to working as an editor and correspondent for none other than The Atlantic magazine, where he was appointed Senior Editor in 2011. He majored in political science and earned a degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University. Florida is best known for his concept of the creative class and its implications for urban regeneration, which he articulated in his bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), Cities and the Creative Class (2003) and The Flight of the Creative Class (2006). Florida’s theory posits that metropolitan regions with high concentrations of tech workers, artists, musicians, LGBTQ people show higher levels of economic development. Florida refers to these groups collectively as the “creative class”.
