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The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited

Ten years ago, Richard Florida published a path-breaking book about the forces that were reshaping our economy, our geography, our work, and our whole way of life.  Weaving story-telling with reams of original research, he traced a fundamental theme through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity.  In a revision to his international best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida proposes a dramatic new social compact for our time—one that can turn our emerging Creative Economy into an enduringly Creative Society. Read more.