Florida’s latest book, “The Great Reset,” argues that the financial crisis of 2008 will bring new patterns
of living, working, and consuming that will require novel real estate solutions over the next 20
to 30 years. This column takes Florida’s theories at face value and asks him to turn them into actionable
advice for REIT executives and investors.
Ontario Business Report interviews Richard Florida on The Great Reset and where we are now.
Richard Florida has spent the past decade talking about the virtues of the Creative Class and its ability to drive economies. The Great Reset, his fifth book on the Creative Class takes a somewhat contrarian view on the current thinking on the economic recession. The view is contrarian in that it’s more optimistic, and rooted in a belief that members of the Creative Class have the skills and talent to lead the global economy out of the current economic crisis.
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.
Richard Florida on the economic crisis and its effects on work and the workplace.
Transcript of Richard Florida’s on air interview with CNN’s Ali Velshi’s Your Money discussing the impact of government budget gaps.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Author and Futurist Richard Florida Predicts a More Urban, Creative and Service-Focused Market.
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.
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.
Interview with Richard Florida by Gretchen Rubin who was curious about how the author thinks about happiness in the context of his own life.
Part 4: Richard Florida describes the shift from suburbs to enormous metropolitan regions
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.
Richard Florida explains why long commutes used to make sense — and why they no longer do
Part 1: Richard Florida talks to Don Peck about how the great American cities rose out of the Industrial Revolution
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.
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.
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.
TheStreet.com goes behind the headlines to find out who and what is really moving the market each day.
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
The recession’s reshaping the country in surprising ways, according to author Richard Florida.
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.
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?
George Strounboulopoulos talks with Richard Florida about this time of great reset for our economy.
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.
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.
How the collapse of the Big Three automakers might actually turn out to be a good thing for Detroit.
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.
