Richard Florida’s “Who’s Your City?” is a cool book that takes a look at the impact of where you live on your professional and social opportunities. Florida conducted research to understand what places attract entrepreneurial minds, how they do it, and its affect on the regions these places inhabit. He also takes a look at what cities represent the best opportunities to find a mate, start a family, be an empty nester, and retire.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
The merging of the Noosa Creative Alliance and the Sunshine Coast to create the Sunshine Coast Regional Alliance in Noosa, Australia.
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?
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
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.
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.
This recession is a “great reset” that offers Canada a chance to emerge from the shadow of its reeling southern neighbor, says Richard Florida
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The first in a series of three columns on The Creative Economy written by Couleur NB President David Hawkins.
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…
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Ken Gray examines how Ottawa performs on urban critic Richard Florida’s guide to choosing your home
“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.
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.
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, 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.
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
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?
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
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.
For The Realtor.Com Addict Who Dreams Of Living Somewhere Else-If She Could Only Figure Out Where
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.
North Texas has 46,300 more single men than single women – the fourth-largest male surplus in the country.
” 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.”
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.
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.
Thriving economies best grow from places that benefit from tolerance, inclusiveness in culturally rich, creative environments
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”
Worcester is one of the best cities to raise a family according to Richard Florida
New Hampshire Union Leader Staff, Benjamin Kepple comments on Manchester’s rankings per Who’s Your City?
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?”
