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The Huffington Post : Trump Got You Down? Check Out My Bubble — Toronto
With Trump in office, Canada will become more and more attractive to global talent.
Medium : The Most Disruptive Transformation in History
We are undergoing several nested transformations at once that are causing incredible disruptions of the economic, social, and political order.
Urban Toronto : Dark Age Ahead: Understanding Jane Jacobs in the Trump Era
A group of prominent Toronto scholars analyzed Jacobs' ongoing impact a century after her birth. Hosted by the University of Toronto's Innis College, the panel featured U of T's Erica Allen Kim, Paul Hess, Michael Piper, Patricia O'Campo, and Richard Florida. Moderated by Urban Studies Chair Shauna Brail, the discussion looked at Jacobs' contributions—and their limitations in the 21st century context—from a multidisciplinary and intersectional range of of perspectives.
Forbes : How Emerging Entrepreneurial Hubs Are Becoming America's New Boomtowns
Richard Florida, the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto and a professor of global research at New York University, writes in “The Rise of Global Startup Cities,” that while venture capital has “gone global” by spreading to places like China and India, the dominant centers remain US cities that combine density, great universities, and an open-minded culture to attract the best talent.
Tampa Bay Times : Where are they now? Ten who put their mark on Tampa Bay economy
Richard Florida named one of ten who put their mark on Tampa Bay's business economy.
Toronto Star : We are neglecting our cities at our peril
Cities are the fundamental drivers of entrepreneurial innovation and economic growth. So why does Ottawa insist on ignoring them?
The New York Times : Is Life Better in America’s Red States?
In this op-ed Richard Florida examines the significant economic division between conservative “red states” and liberal “blue states.”
CATO Institute : An Urban Agenda for Economic Growth
America’s future can be even better than its past. But the key to getting there — to reigniting innovation, spurring long run prosperity and rebuilding our sagging middle class — lies in strengthening and empowering our system of cities, our greatest asset of all.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : Stop the corporate extortion
‘Job creators’ wring tax breaks from states at the expense of everyone else.
NY Daily News : How to create good new NYC jobs for all
Since the worst of the recession, New York City has gained back the jobs it lost and then some, surpassing its all-time high of over 4 million private-sector jobs by more than 5%. This is a resurgence to be sure, but it is a disappointingly uneven one.In short, the road to opportunity remains closed for far too many New Yorkers.
Royal Carribean's Horizons : Start-Up City
The entrepreneurial economy: creative innovation as a by-product of an urban ecosystem.
Forbes : Richard Florida: Economic Trends All Entrepreneurs Should Follow
In the following interview, Florida talks about the latest workplace and economic trends affecting business owners and employees, the impact of technology and automation, why we need a new social compact and gives his best career advice.
CBC News : Rethinking the home ownership dream
Buying a home today may not be the life-long investment it has been in the past.
Barcelona Metropolis : Barcelona can offer everyone a creative environment
“For a place to harness creativity, it must be open to the creativity of all. Not just techies or the creative class, but everyone,” argues Richard Florida. For the author of The Rise of the Creative Class, openness is a key factor in a city’s economic growth.
McKinsey & Company : Building the creative economy: An interview with Richard Florida
The academic and author explains how creative companies and the venture capital that drives them are increasingly flowing to cities, and what that means for economic and societal development.
Politico Magazine : Welcome To Blueburbia
America’s landscape has changed in fundamental ways, with powerful implications for its politics.
The Atlantic : The Boom Towns and Ghost Towns of the New Economy
New York, Houston, Washington, D.C.—plus college towns and the energy belt—are all up, while much of the Sun Belt is (still) down. Mapping the winners and losers since the crash.
Pittsburgh Quarterly : Visions of Pittsburgh's future
Twenty-five years ago, Pittsburgh hosted the Remaking Cities Conference, an international gathering of architects, visionaries and dignitaries, including England's Prince Charles, the honorary co-host and keynote speaker. This year, Oct. 15-–18, 2013, Carnegie Mellon University will host the Remaking Cities Congress, with 300 invited urbanists and thought leaders who will again focus on the post-industrial city in North America and Europe. In that context, they have asked 10 thought leaders to assess the Pittsburgh region's strengths and weaknesses and to consider what they would like to see in the Pittsburgh of the future. The package begins with a foreword from noted urbanist Richard Florida.
Faena Sphere : Agents of Change
Richard Florida, journalist, founder of creative group, author and global leader in urbanism, has brought a breath of fresh air to the field of urban renovation, especially after the collapse of the global housing bubble. Florida has been a prominent figure in the economic sphere since 1990, when he wrote his first book exploring the technological boom of Silicon Valley. His theories are characterized by his ability to recognize something many intellectuals had ignored: cultural diversity stimulates the economy.
GoLocal Worcester : Rob Horowitz: The Ultimate City: Bohemians, Gays & Jobs
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.
The Toronto Star : Richard Florida: Saving capitalism from itself
You don’t have to be a Marxist to wonder if capitalism has run its course. Though the stock market is soaring the economic recovery is jobless, millions remain un- or underemployed, and the economies of the world are mired in slow growth. At the same time, the gap between the rich and the poor is wider that it’s been in more than a century.Before we can treat capitalism’s symptoms, we have to understand its disease. We are in the midst of the greatest, most thorough economic transformation in all of history.
Jacksonville Daily Record : Richard Florida: Converting creativity into economic development
Richard Florida speaking Friday, November 16th at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Jacksonville University College of Fine Arts.
National Journal : Two-Thirds in U.S. Falling Deeper into Financial Peril
Income and wealth inequality have risen to record levels in the United States. Even as cities have become the new social and economic organizing units of our increasingly spiky world, their inequalities are approaching levels found in Third World nations.
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.
New York Daily News : Wanted: Working class jobs
Richard Florida on how to help lower-income New Yorkers climb the city's increasingly slippery economic ladder. Behind New York's encouraging news is a troubling trend: Huge numbers of middle and especially lower incomepeople continue to struggle. To complete its transition, New York must develop strategies that enable many more of its workers to benefit from the ongoing transformation of its economy.
BMW Guggenheim Lab Log : Resilient economies, resilient cities: An interview with Richard Florida
Interview with Richard Florida on how do cities develop resilient economic systems that don’t crash and leave them in the messes they have in the past? Is it possible to plan an urban economy that can easily adapt to constant change?
National Geographic : Cities are the Key
National Geographic Traveler interview with Richard Florida. Florida says society’s success is inextricably bound to the success of our great cities. And yet, the growing concentration ofwealth and human capital in urban areas is leading to greater inequality, with a person’s prosperity determinedincreasingly by location. Florida explores social and economic trends in his numerous books.
The Economist : The government's new guru: Bring me sunshine
Outlining his plan to create a rival to Silicon Valley in the East End of London on November 4th, Mr Cameron paid tribute to Richard Florida, an American urban economist, for devising a blueprint for government’s role in the economy.
San Francisco Sentinel.com : California Said Best State for Innovating Economic Growth
From California to Virginia, Richard Florida ranks the most innovative statesin the country to find out where good ideas are generating economic growth. California and Massachusetts rank 1st and 2nd on our new list of America’s most innovative states.
Canadian Government Executive : Keys to success: Talent, technology and tolerance
Richard Florida shares his views on what needs to happen if cities are to succeed.
Free Market Mojo : Working Smarter, Not Harder Brings in the Dough
Richard Florida has posted on a new study (PDF) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that shows where workers work the longest hours and make the most money.
Albany Times Union : Economic future requires thriving cities
Florida predicts the current Great Recession, like its predecessor international economic crises, "will accelerate the rise and fall of specific places within the U.S. -- and reverse the fortunes of other cities and regions". This may not bode well for the Capital Region.
Rockford Register Star : Daunting challenges require collaborative solutions
Richard Florida, the author of the book “The Rise of the Creative Class,” has written an article in The Atlantic titled “How the Crash Will Reshape America” which makes several points that are particularly relevant to the Greater Rockford region.
Wall Street Journal : The Next Youth-Magnet Cities
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.
Online Schools : 100 Best Twitter Feeds for Your Financial Intelligence
Richard Florida ranks among those best twitter feeds for financial intelligence.
Associate Degree : 100 Best Twitter Feeds for Savvy Business Students
Richard Florida ranked 24 out of 100 best twitter feeds for business students, posting links to economic stories that impact everyone’s lives such as unemployment, personal bankruptcy, and spending.
Online College Degree : 100 Amazingly Insightful People You Can Learn from on Twitter
For a daily stream of business tips, life lessons, personal finance help, tech tips, and more, check out these incredibly insightful Tweeters, among them Richard Florida
Examiner : Milwaukee take note: Gay-friendly cities benefit from more economic prosperity
Richard Florida argues that the more "gay-friendly" a city is, the more economically prosperous it will be.
ABC News : Is the American Dream Dead -- or Just in Hiding?
Cutting back on the excess of the boom years might not be so bad, some families discover.
Tampabay.com : Hey grads! We've got affordable housing!
The Tampa Bay area has morphed from an overpriced housing market (in a region of modest wages) to a very affordable place for young people to get their own place to live.
China Law Blog : Shanghai As World Financial Capital? Maybe Next Century.
Richard Florida's article in the Atlantic entitled, "How The Crash Will Reshape America" on why New York will remain as the world's financial capital and why, despite the projected growth of Asia's economies, we should not expect Shanghai, Hong Kong, or anywhere else to usurp it. At least not for an exceedingly long time.
Raise the Hammer : Can Hamilton Become a Centre of Innovation?
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?
National Post : Richard Florida goes to city hall, quotes Karl Marx
Toronto’s economic development committee invited Prof. Florida, an American academic and author now at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, to enlighten on the way out of the current global financial crisis. Richard Florida went to Toronto city hall to tell councillors that improving the lot of service-sector workers is key to the city’s prosperity.
The Business Insider : High Speed Trains Will Fix The Economy
Richard Florida writing for the Atlantic thinks high speed rail development is key to economic recovery. He says economic recovery will come through "a new period of geographic expansion - or what geographers term a 'new spatial fix.'"
Tree Hugger : High-Speed Rail: Richard Florida Weighs In
Richard Florida overlays the proposed high speed rail network on his map of megaregions and makes some very good points.
Reading Eagle : QUARTERLIFE CHRONICLES: Rescuing the economy by renting rather than buying
According to the cover story in the March edition of The Atlantic, renting benefits the economy. The article, written by Richard Florida, says that renters aren't tied down to one location, so they're freer to move from town to town as emerging industries and new jobs dictate. The also don't have the long-term burden of a mortgage.
NPR : Scholar: It's Time For The Post Automotive Era
Michigan, the national leader in recession, depends on an auto industry that will never be as big as it was. So how does the Detroit area diversify? Who's hiring, or investing in something new? Morning Edition reports on Detroit's desperate race to replace the jobs that the automakers eliminate.
The Globe and Mail : Montreal faces uphill battle in new economic order
Montreal needs to get busy if it is to carve out a place for itself in this new economic order. It has a lot going for it: A vibrant inner city, a deep talent pool of "knowledge" workers, a diverse population and creativity to burn. Its problem is just that Toronto has even more of these things.
Peak Oil News : What Happens After the Crash? America Faces a Future of Discontinuity
Richard Florida, the urban theorist and author of the seminal book, The Rise of the Creative Class, is talking about a fundamental “reset” in the North American economy as a consequence of the crash.
Shawangunk Journal : If New York Wins . . .
Countering the prevalent gloom, The Atlantic's provocative March 2009 front cover asks "How The Crash Will Reshape America," with a counter-intuitive sub-title reading "The Sunbelt Fades, New York Wins."
Encylopedia Britannica Blog : What Happens After the Crash? America Faces a Future of Discontinuity
Richard Florida is talking about a fundamental “reset” in the North American economy as a consequence of the crash.
WV Gazette : Dreams to own home die hard
The prediction of death to the American dream of owning a home is replaced by a new landscape of technological and scientific prosperity as seen by writer Richard Florida in his article "How the crash will reshape America".
Forbes : You Are Where You Live
A conversation with Richard Florida about the importance of place and how the recession will reshape America's cities.
The Capital Times : Business Beat: 'Creative class' Madison still a favorite of author 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.
Examiner : Arts are an engine of economic sustainability- Create Denver is the fuel
In this month’s Atlantic Monthly, Richard Florida's piece "How the Crash Will Reshape America" argues that while New York City will be hobbled by the global financial melt-down, it will be in a better position than many other financial centers. A look at Denver's position and the Create Denver Expo which provided workshops and seminars for local artists interested in learning more about the business, legal and marketing aspects of the creative industries and to meet others in their community exploring the same challenges.
"The Suburbs Lose, The Sun Belt Fades, San Francisco Wins: How the Crash Will Reshape America."
PSFK : An Intelligent Redesign of America’s Communities?
In Richard Florida’s recent piece for the Atlantic, “How the Crash Will Reshape America,” he foresees a more concentrated population centered around cities, leading to the further expansion of mega-regions - systems of multiple cities and their surrounding suburbs - based on their ability to offer higher paying jobs and attract the best talent.
A look at Richard Florida's article in The Globe and Mail revealing the argument that both the American and Canadian governments' recent stimulus packages are doomed to failure.
The Windsor Star : High-speed rail plan will help Windsor diversify
Richard Florida suggests a high-speed rail plan that will help Windsor-Essex.
USA Today : Rent out the American Dream?
Homeownership has been a central tenet of a ‘richer and fuller life’ in the USA, but foreclosures are severely testing this model. A possible solution: Rent these homes as a first step toward a more affordable, flexible housing system.
Business Report : Do you want Obama to fail?
Richard Florida and this month's Atlantic cover story in conjunction with Obama and the country's state of affairs.
Las Vegas Sun : Planning guru holds out some hope for Vegas
In the current issue of The Atlantic, Florida examines the fates of U.S. cities such as Las Vegas in the post-recession era in an article titled “How the Crash Will Reshape America.”
Minneapolis City Pages : High-speed train from Minneapolis to Chicago may be reality
When "creative class" economics guru Richard Florida spoke to the Star Tribune, he had one suggestion for how to boost Minneapolis through the recession: a high-speed train to Chicago.
Minneapolis Star Tribune : Editorial: A positive note in state's outlook
As Minnesota struggles to weather the recession, how well its leaders protect the state's most valuable assets -- and position the region for growth -- will determine its place in a reshaped American economy. Florida says Minneapolis-St. Paul "will still be standing'' in 2030.
Urban Turf : Arlington, Virginia : A Great Success Story
In March's The Atlantic article, Florida argues that the suburbs present as much of a challenge for revitalization as the cities they surround.
Urban Turf : DC: A Suburb of New York City
In The Atlantic's cover story entitled How the Crash Will Reshape America, Florida analyzes the changes, by geographic region, that he believes will come as a result of the current recession. Specifically, he predicts that certain cities and urban regions in the US will suffer a “body blow” from which they may never fully recover, while others will emerge stronger and more strategically relevant than before.
Harrisonburg Daily News Record : An Opportunity To Change For The Better
This economic crisis is the perfect opportunity for us to get real about how our way of life is changing. But it seems there are many desperately clutching to the past.
The Oregonian : In the Coraline Economy we trust
Urbanist Jane Jacobs' idea of the successful city is central to the theory -- an adaptive place where new ideas and people gather in numbers and then are "tossed together in serendipitous ways," as Seltzer puts it. This sort of open city attracts creative people, according to the research of author Richard Florida, especially young creative people. And the more of them, the better-placed a city is for the next economy.
Seattle and the impact of the current economic crises.
Financial Times : Happy Days For New York's Psychiatrists
In these tough economic times, it is sometimes hard to think of a silver lining. But Richard Florida - the man who coined the term "the creative class" - proposes an interesting one: that what is bad for financial services businesses may be good for artists and psychiatrists.
Tallahassee.com : Economists predict economic recession to approach severity of Great Depression
With unemployment climbing, tax collections plummeting, the real-estate market frozen and the population waning, Florida legislators convene the spring session at a pivotal moment.
Sacramento Bee : Home Front: Renting has seldom looked so good
Renting has seldom looked so good as now, as homeownership is increasingly associated with instability and fear.
Tampabay.com : How the crash may reshape us
There's growing consensus this economic downturn is not only longer, deeper and nastier. It's becoming clear this recession may prove transforming, potentially changing us personally, regionally, nationally — even globally — in fundamental ways.Once we emerge from this financial firestorm, the Tampa Bay area will have changed. And if it has not, maybe it should.
Now & Then : Capitalist Crisis and Who Built America?
Florida evaluates the current financial crisis in the context of previous convulsive shifts in the development of capitalism in the U.S., starting with the late 19th century–the original Great Depression. He argues that different phases in capitalist development engender and are enabled by specific geographies.
LA Observed : Or L.A. is on the upswing
This month's Atlantic cover story posits that L.A. is one of the relatively few American places ideally situated to rise from the ashes of the recession. That's because L.A. is a high metabolism big city with a strong creative base, urban theorist Richard Florida argues.
Greater Greater Washington : Encourage renting and mobility to reduce sprawl
Lately some have been advocating that the government stop subsidizing home ownership, arguing that it locks people to a place, and when the economy goes sour people need the flexibility to go where the jobs are.
Daily Kos : How Will Our Economic Transformation Change Our Political Geography?
A look at Richard Florida's article in March's issue of The Atlantic by Dana Houle.
Inman News : Is homeownership an obstacle to change?
Richard Florida, in The Atlantic Monthly article argues that the key to recovery from the housing bubble and financial crash is to remove homeownership "from its long-privileged place at the center of the U.S. economy."
Kingsport Time News : What will it take to attract the creative class?
Richard Florida's thought provoking and revolutionary ideas about the future of housing and economic development.
ZDNet : After the collapse: Tech insights provide the way forward
Richard Koman suggests we are at an inflection point where we either withdraw into ourselves and exacerbate a deep depression or infuse society and the economy with the technology paradigms that should mark Western society in the 21st century.
Las Vegas Review-Journal : GEOFF SCHUMACHER: Unfinished business
Amid the global recession, some are predicting the decline of Las Vegas.The most serious-minded articulation of this viewpoint comes from renowned urban studies professor Richard Florida, who wrote the cover story, "How the Crash Will Reshape America," in the March issue of The Atlantic magazine.
In March's issue of The Atlantic, Richard Florida looks at the potential ramifications of the current economic crisis on our country's urban landscape and wonders what changes will be brought about.
Isthmus Daily Page : Blaska's Blog: How low can it go? Part II
Blaska's take on the current financial crisis with reference to Richard Florida and March's issue of the Atlantic-At critical moments, Americans have always looked forward, not back, and surprised the world with our resilience. Can we do it again? [The Atlantic: How the Crash Will Reshape America]
Toronto Star : Hey look, we made front of The Atlantic
Toronto is one of four cities touted as a potentially strengthened survivor of the current financial crisis – along with New York, Chicago and San Francisco in March's issue of The Atlantic.
Toronto Star : What Obama can learn from us
Barack Obama is getting the message from influential U.S. voices that Canada – and Toronto in particular – are models for the American social and economic renaissance the new U.S. president is pledged to bring about.
Science Guide : How the Crash Will Reshape America: The Winners and Losers
Excerpts from The Atlantic's "How the Crash Will Reshape America: The Winners and Losers."
Science Guide : Richard Florida: “Combat the crisis with talent-strategy”
At a conference in Pamplona, Spain, Richard Florida made it clear to ScienceGuide correspondent Roy van Dalm that countries pumping unlimited funds to prevent companies from going under doesn’t really get his approval.
Artvoice : Richard Florida: The Crash and Our Economic Geography
Richard Florida’s piece in The Atlantic, “How the Crash Will Reshape America” suggests that the current economic crisis has the potential to remake the country’s economic geography in the same way that the crash of 1873 and the Great Depression did.
The Financial Times : Psychiatry as New York’s counter-cyclical industry
In Richard Florida's recent The Atlantic essay, he proposes that what is bad for financial services firms may be good for artists and psychiatrists.
The Huffington Post : The Atlantic March 2009 Issue Gets Four Covers
With its March 2009 issue, The Atlantic is targeting metro areas with separate covers specifically tailored to their newsstands. The issue features a cover story by urban studies Richard Florida, best known for his work about the "creative class." The story is titled, "How the Crash Will Reshape America," and while it points to declines in the suburbs and the Sun Belt, it also reports good news about certain metro areas.
The Oregonian : After the Crash
Might the crisis roiling the economy reshape the American landscape? Is it a turning point in the country's social geography? As the economy mends and growth begins anew, what cities or regions will be best-suited to take advantage of the change? Urban theorist Richard Florida has some interesting thoughts on those questions in a major piece in The Atlantic, and his answers are encouraging for Portland and the Northwest.
New York Magazine : How the Financial Crisis Is Good for New York
Florida, who is a scholar and the author of The Rise of the Creative Class, has become semi-famous in recent years for arguing that the U.S. economy is now based on the development and exchange of ideas, and that the best places for that to happen are those that attract and coddle creative, educated people. Places, in other words, like New York.Florida's Atlantic piece devotes special attention to New York.
The Oregonian : A triple grande recession
Richard Florida writes a cover story for the March issue of The Atlantic called, "How the Crash Will Reshape America." His theory is that the recession will accelerate the rise and fall of specific places within the United States, speeding up the fates of some cities and reversing the fortunes of others. Interestingly, he lumps Portland and Seattle with the cities that will fare better than most.
The New Republic : Post-Depression Landscape
The Plank's take on Richard Florida's article, "How the Crash Will Reshape America,” in the Atlantic Monthly.
History News Network : Roundup: Historians' Take-Richard Florida: How the Crash Will Reshape America
Excerpts from Richard Florida's article in The Atlantic, "How the Crash Will Reshape America".
The Atlantic : The Daily Dish A Return To The Cities
Richard Florida's cover story in the Atlantic is on how the recession will change the geography of America. The winners? "Mega-regions, systems of multiple cities and their surrounding suburban rings like the Boston–New York–Washington Corridor".
The New Yorker : A Map of the Future
Florida the urban theorist is making the case in this month’s Atlantic cover story “How the Crash Will Reshape America,” that success will depend on America becoming less like Florida the state, and more like Europe: fewer homeowners, smaller homes, more renters, denser cities, fewer cars. T
The Atlantic : The Great Reset
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?
Willamette Week Newspaper : Reshaping America and Where Portland Fits In
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.
Pauline Armbrust's interview with Richard Florida on the creative class.
Canada.com : 'Stop being so humble' urban expert urges Canadian cities
Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, says Canadian cities need to "stop being so humble" and see themselves as global models of exactly the sort of livable communities the U.S. desperately needs.
Toronto Star : Looking at the recession as an opportunity
Toronto-based urban theorist Richard Florida believes Ontario's economy is at a turning point. He was asked by Premier Dalton McGuinty to map a path to long-term economic success.
US News and World Report : Q&A Richard Florida
Why were we live can be as important as whom we marry.
Fast Company : In Praise of Spikes
In an exclusive excerpt, the guru of the Creative Class explains the peaks and valleys of the global economy.
Business Facilities: Capturing the Creative Class
Memphis, TN had a new kind of blues. Despite its rich history and amenities, and strong economic engines such as the FedEx headquarters, the city was losing annual job earnings, mainly because it could not hold on to young, bright talent. The 2000 census showed that Memphis' population grew by 6,000 since 1995, but its net income had dropped by $90 million.
Urban Density, Creativity, and Innovation
By Brian Knudsen, Richard Florida, Gary Gates, and Kevin Stolarick - May 2007
The Creative Class or Human Capital? Explaining Economic Development in Sweden
By Charlotta Mellander and Richard Florida - Dec 2006
Theory and Practice of Regional Economic Development
By Richard Florida - 2006
A Search for Jobs in Some of the Wrong Places
By Richard Florida - Feb 2006
Regions and Universities Together Can Foster a Creative Economy
By Richard Florida, Chronicle of Higher Education - 2006
Creative Capital: The Key to Prosperity
By Richard Florida - Sept 2005
By Richard Florida, Philadelphia Inquirer - May 2005
America’s Best and Brightest Are Leaving…and Taking the Creative Economy With Them
By Richard Florida, Across the Board: the Conference Board Magazine - Sept 1994
Washington Monthly: The New American Dream[creativeclass.com]
By Richard Florida, The Washington Monthly - March 2003
The Economic Geography of Talent
This article by Richard Florida examines the economic geography of talent exploringthe factors that attract talent and its effects on high-technology industry and regional incomes.
Washington Monthly: The Rise of the Creative Class
By Richard Florida, Washington Monthly - May 2002
Rebuilding Lower Manhattan For the Creative Age: Implications for the Greater New York Region
By Richard Florida, A report prepared for the Regional Plan Association and the Civic Alliance - April 2002
Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Regional Development
By Richard Florida, book chapter in Entrepreneurship, David Hart (editor) - 2002
Technology and Tolerance: The Importance of Diversity to High-Tech Growth
By Richard Florida and Gary Gates, Brookings Institution, Center for Urban and Metropolitan Policy - June 2001
By Richard Florida, Information Week - April 2001
E-Inclusion: It's Not A Choice
By Richard Florida, Information Week - March 2001
We Can Import the Irish Miracle
By Richard Florida, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - March 2001
By Richard Florida, Information Week - Jan 2001
Silver IT Lining In Dark Clouds
By Richard Florida, Information Week - Dec 2000
Technology, Talent, And Tolerance
By Richard Florida, Information Week - Nov 2000
Pittsburgh's Prosperity Depends on Diversity
By Richard Florida, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Oct 2000
Companies Must Fight The Backlash
By Richard Florida, Information Week - Sept 2000
Pittsburgh, Let's Wake Up and Play
By Richard Florida, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - June 2000
What Else Is There Besides Money?
By Richard Florida, Information Week - April 2000
Competing in the Age of Talent: Environment, Amenities and the New Economy
By Richard Florida - Greater Philadelphia Regional Review - Jan 2000
Economic Development for the New Economy.
By Richard Florida, American Chamber of Commerce, Chamber Executive - Aug 1999
The Role of the University: Leveraging Talent, Not Technology
By Richard Florida, Issues in Science and Technology - June 1999
Do Green Businesses Benefit Communities? Results from A Survey of Manufacturing Plants
Richard Florida, Derek Davison, and Matthew Cline, Report to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection - June 1999
Engine or Infrastructure? The University Role in Economic Development
By Richard Florida, book chapter in Industrializing Knowledge, Lewis Branscomb and Furnio Kodama (editors), MIT Press - Feb 1999
Regional Environmental Performance and Sustainability: A Review and Assessment of Indicator Projects
By Richard Florida and Tracy Gordon, A Report prepared for the Environmental City Network and Sustainable Pittsburgh - Jan 1999
Capital and Creative Destruction: Venture Capital, Technological Change, and Economic Development
By Richard Florida and Mark Samber, The New Industrial Geography: Regions, Regulation and Institutions - Jan 1999
Review of: The Associational Economy: Firms, Regions and Innovation by Philip cooke and Keven Morgan
By Richard Florida, Research Policy - 1999
By Richard Florida, Economic Geography - July 1996
Foreign Direct Investment and the Economy
By Richard Florida, book chapter in Foreign Direct Investment, in Cynthia Beltz (editor), Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute - 1995
High-Performance Economic Development
By Richard Florida and Timoth McNulty, Commentary - Spring 1995
By Richard Florida, Growth and Change - Fall 1994
By Maryann P. Feldman and Richard Florida, Annals of the Association of American Geographers - June 1994
What Start Ups Don't Need Is Money
By Richard Florida, Inc. Magazine - April 1994
Institutions and Economic Transformation: The Case of Postwar Japanese Capitalism
By Martin Kenney and Richard Florida, Growth and Change - March 1994
Japanese Maquiladoras: Production Organization and Global Commodity Chains
By Martin Kenney and Richard Florida, World Development - 1994
Review of: Regional Advantage by Annalee Saxenian
By Richard Florida, Science - 1994
Venture Capital Formation, Investment, and Regional Industrialization
By Richard Florida and Donald F. Smith, Jr., Annals of the Association of American Geographers - Sept 1993
By Richard Florida, The World & I - May 27, 1993
The Japanese Transplants, Production Organization and Regional Development
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Journal of the American Planning Association - Winter 1992
By Richard Florida, Futures: The Journal of Forecasting and Planning - July 1991
How Japanese Industry Is Rebuilding the Rust Belt
By Martin Kenney and Richard Florida, Technology Review - Feb 1991
Venture Capital, Innovation and Economic Development
By Richard Florida and Donald Smith, Economic Development Quarterly - Nov 1990
Silicon Valley and Route 128 Won't Save Us
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, California Management Review - Fall 1990
Economic Restructuring and the Changing Role of the State in U.S. Housing
Marshall Feldman and Richard Florida, Book Chapter in Government and Housing: Developments in Seven Countries. Urban Affairs Annual Reviews no. 36 by Willem van Vliet and Jan van Weesep (editors) - 1990
Venture Capital, Innovation, and Economic Development
By Richard Florida and Donald F. Smith, Jr., Economic Development Quarterly - 1990
The New Geography of Automobile Production: Japanese Transplants in North America
By Andrew Mair and Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Economic Geography - Oct 1988
Venture Capital-Financed Innovation and Technological Change in the USA
By Richard L. Florida and Martin Kenney, Research Policy - June 1988
Venture Capital's Geography: A Comment on Leinbach and Amrhein
By Richard Florida and Martin Kenney, Professional Geographer - Jan 1988
New Reality of Municipal Finance: The Rise and Fall of the Intergovernmental City
By Robert Burchell, James Carr, Richard Florida, and James Nemeth, Center for Urban Policy Research - 1984