The Florida Report is an eight-part video series from The Atlantic featuring Richard Florida.
The eighth and final installment in The Florida Report is titled “The Burden of Home Ownership.” Richard argues that Americans need to get over their obsession with home ownership.
To view the other videos in this series, please click here.
Check out Richard Florida’s Big Think interview in its entirety in the video below, or visit Big Think to view the interview in segments which cover the economic crisis, home ownership, employment, New York and Detroit, and more.
The Florida Report is an eight-part video series from The Atlantic featuring Richard Florida.
The seventh installment in The Florida Report is titled “Why Detroit Needs to Go Back to Its Roots.” Richard argues that planned shrinkage isn’t the best way to save Motown.
To view the other videos in this series, please click here.
The Florida Report is an eight-part video series from The Atlantic featuring Richard Florida.
The sixth installment in The Florida Report is titled “Will Phoenix Rise from the Flames?” Richard reflects on whether or not the Sunbelt can make a comeback.
The Florida Report is an eight-part video series from The Atlantic featuring Richard Florida.
The fifth installment in The Florida Report is titled “Beyond Wall Street.” Richard explains how the financial crisis might help New York find a new sense of balance.
Our cities are our greatest invention. They are places where human diversity and talent cluster to foster unrivaled creativity, innovation, and prosperity. Home to half of the world’s population, housing more than three billion people globally, too many of our cities are disconnected from the global economy and even many of the most advanced cities have pockets of disadvantage and poverty. If we want to raise global living standards and improve the health and well-being of all our residents, we have to start by making our cities more prosperous and livable. We need simple solutions that can be replicated in any community.
That’s why we’re excited to announce the launch of the Philips Livable Cities Award. This year-long program honors outside-of-the-box thinkers who have ideas that demonstrate simple, practical solutions for improving the health and well-being of the people living, working, and playing in their city. Richard Florida will be joined by an international panel of experts to develop the award criteria.
The initiative was introduced to highlight the complex challenges faced by the residents of today’s cities and to encourage individuals, community groups, and businesses to develop novel strategies and solutions that can help their communities become more livable, sustainable, and prosperous, and can be readily executed and replicated in communities worldwide.
For more information about this award and to learn about eligibility for entering, please visit the Philips Livable Cities Award, CNN, or download the brochure (PDF).
My op-ed in the Toronto Star.
I’ve lived in Toronto for three years. Every passing day, I’m discovering new dimensions to this great city. I count our decision to move here among the best of my life.
But the more I look at our city and region, the more I recognize the challenges we face, especially in light of how the tectonic economic events of the past 18 months are recasting the role of cities and regions worldwide, which I lay out in my new book, The Great Reset. I hold up Toronto as an example of an older Frost Belt city that has effectively made the transition to a new economy based on finance, media, service, technology and design-intensive manufacturing.
But resets are times when the fortunes of cities, regions and nations change dramatically. They are times of chaos and suffering, but also of tremendous innovation.
The Florida Report is an eight-part video series from The Atlantic featuring Richard Florida.
The fourth installment in The Florida Report is titled “Megaregions of the Future.” Richard describes the shift from suburbs to enormous metropolitan regions.
The Florida Report is an eight-part video series from The Atlantic featuring Richard Florida.
The third installment in The Florida Report is titled “Why Cities Are Idea Factories.” Richard discusses the forces that give rise to innovation in urban areas.
Here’s the intro from my interview with Newsweek.com’s Nancy Cook.
As the economy recovers and Americans get back to work, the wage gap between white- and blue-collar work is expected to grow. According to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 60 million people—46 percent of the American workforce—in 2009 worked in the service sector as cashiers, office clerks, cooks, nurses, retail salespeople, or customer-service representatives.
But 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 of the bestselling book The Rise of the Creative Class. 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.
Read the full interview here.
