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Business Insider : RICHARD FLORIDA: It's Up To The Cities To Bring America Back
Richard Florida's column in the Business Insider discussing our most important resource which is us – the creative potential that is in every human being.For perhaps the first time in human history, the further progress of our economy is inextricably tied up with the further development of our essential humanity.
The Globe and Mail : Look out – Canada, too, could catch the riot virus
The deepening social and economic divisions that are all too apparent in London are becoming evident in our own cities as well. Richard Florida argues that there is a real danger that riots like London's will become a feature, not a mere bug, of global cities.
Financial Times : The inchoate rage beneath our global cities
London’s riots prompted commentators on the right to blame hooliganism, while those on the left cited frustrations with the UK’s faltering economy and fiscal austerity. But the causes run deeper and are linked fundamentally to the changing structure of the world’s economy. They are problems many of our global cities will soon face.
USA Today : 10 great places to explore urban neighborhoods
Richard Florida says that many of the nation's urban areas are booming with new restaurants, parks and condos. All these areas are great to visit, he says, offering a slice of local urban life. He shares up-and-coming neighborhoods with Larry Bleiberg for USA TODAY.
Financial Times : Why immigrants help your city stay crime free
US crime levels have fallen to their lowest reported levels in nearly half a century despite major unemployment and the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Even more remarkably, the drop was steepest in America’s big cities – which are still popularly believed to be cauldrons of criminality. The question is: why?
The New York Times : What Housing Crisis?[www.nytimes.com]
Richard Florida's column in The New York Times on the widening gap between the D.C. economy, with its robust housing and job markets, and the rest of America. What's the key?
The Daily Beast : Best Cities to be Single on New Year's
Looking to meet someone to start the year off right? Richard Florida crunches the numbers for the best cities in America for single men and women to be this New Year’s Eve.
The Daily Beast : Best Christmas Cities for Kids
Every kid hopes for a white Christmas with lots of gifts, but some cities are more likely to have it. Richard Florida on the 20 best cities to be a kid on Christmas morning.
The Daily Beast : It Wasn't About the Economy, Stupid
The pundits say Tuesday's election was a repudiation of Obama's handling of the recession, but Richard Florida says the data show something entirely different.
The Daily Beast : The Best Cities for Trick-or-Treating
You may have your costume already picked out, but how does your city rate for celebrating Halloween? Richard Florida crunched the numbers for the ultimate list of the best cities to collect candy.
The Daily Beast : 20 Most Innovative States
From California to Virginia, Richard Florida ranks the most innovative states in the country to find out where good ideas are generating economic growth.
Barcelona has always been as commercial as it is creative. The city of Gaudi and Miro and the young Picasso is also a center of textile, chemical, pharmaceutical, and automotive manufacturing, publishing, finance, telecommunications and information technology, of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. It's this combination that the city and region can build on to survive and prosper through the economic crisis and Great Reset.
Remaking our sprawling suburbs, with their enormous footprints, shoddy construction, hastily put up infrastructure, and dying malls, is shaping up to be the biggest urban revitalization challenge of modern times—far larger in scale, scope and cost than the revitalization of our inner cities.
The Daily Beast : The 20 Worst Places to Sell Your Home
Nearly one in four American homeowners are now underwater on their mortgage. Richard Florida crunches the numbers to find the 20 cities with the biggest debt and housing problems.
The Daily Beast : 20 Brainiest Cities in America
Where do the biggest brainiacs in America live? Richard Florida crunches the numbers to figure out the smartest cities in the country.
The Daily Beast : 20 Best Cities to Find Jobs
Wondering where the jobs of the future are going to be? Richard Florida crunched the numbers to create a list of the American cities with the fastest-growing job markets, from New York to Durham to Bethesda.
The New Republic : The Roadmap to a High-Speed Recovery
The fiscal and monetary fixes that have helped mature industrial economies like the United States get back on their feet since the Great Depression are not going to make the difference this time. Mortgage interest tax credits and massive highway investments are artifacts of our outmoded industrial age; in fact, our whole housing-auto complex is superannuated.
The Daily Beast : 20 U.S. Cities with the Most Immigrants
Which cities have the most immigrants and foreign born citizens in America? Richard Florida and his team crunch the numbers to come up with a surprising list and explore why these cities benefit from high immigrant populations.
The Daily Beast : America’s Top Gay Cities
From the obvious (San Francisco) to the surprising (Columbus), Richard Florida and Gary Gates crunched the numbers to come up with the gayest cities in the country.
The Daily Beast : America's 20 Highest Earning Cities
Wondering where you earn the highest incomes? Richard Florida and his team have put together the definitive list of American's 20 highest earning cities.
Ottawa Citizen : Why Canada needs a Great Reset
Canada's economy is badly in need of significant structural changes. Without the pressure of a crisis, there's a real danger that we'll settle for complacency, instead.
The Daily Beast : The Fourth Place
More and more workers are plugging in and taking meetings at places, like Starbucks, that aren’t home or the office. Richard Florida on why this trend will change our business world.
Financial Times : America needs to make its bad jobs better
Periods of crisis and creative destruction such as the current one are when new categories of jobs are created as old categories of jobs are destroyed. The key to a sustained recovery is to turn as many of these – as well as existing lower-paying jobs – into better, family-supporting jobs.
NY Daily News : College grads will do just fine: This is a tale of two downturns
There's no question that this year's 1.6 million college graduates are entering the job market during one of America's worst economic crises. But this does not mean that college grads are facing unprecedented kinds of trouble.
The Wall Street Journal : Homeownership Is Overrated
Richard Florida says owning a home may actually be a drawback given the economic flexibility required to power long-lasting recovery. He and his colleagues tracked homeownership levels across U.S. cities and regions to see how they correlate to other measurable demographic and economic factors.
The Daily Beast : 25 Best Cities for College Grads
The Class of 2010 is heading into the real world but where should they live? Urban guru Richard Florida and his team find the best cities for the young and ambitious.
Toronto Star : Richard Florida: Toronto could use a good civic crisis
Richard Florida examines the challenges Toronto and Canada face, especially in light of how the tectonic economic events of the past 18 months are recasting the role of cities and regions worldwide.
The Gazette : Cities: SMALL is the big idea
Local entrepreneurship, arts and cultural industries ... have become the core stuff of economic development, writes Richard Florida in The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity. Please see the excerpt.
The Globe and Mail : When small countries hit the Olympic big-time
Richard Florida takes a look at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. When you account for population size, medal count reveals a crude measure of what's behind national athletic excellence.
Korea 2020 : South Korea: Moving into the Creative Age
South Korea has clawed its way out of poverty by becoming a manufacturing powerhouse. But to stay a world-class economy will require the country to draw on a different set of skills. In the future, it will be the ability to create—as distinct from the ability to produce—that will foster innovation, and with it, sustainable economic growth. Whether it is new ideas, new business models, new cultural forms, new technologies, or new industries, it is creative capital that will drive the world economy. The ability to harness creativity will be the biggest challenge, as well as the biggest opportunity, for South Korea.
Shawati Magazine : How Cities Renew
Richard Florida's take on "How Cities Renew" in relation to his recent trip to Abu Dhabi, his observations on the city and its people.
McKinsey Quarterly : What Matters: A new kind of economic indicator
The concentration of bohemians and gays consistently have a staggering impact on housing values.
McKinsey Quarterly : What Matters: Talentopolis
Today a highly significant demographic realignment is at work: the mass relocation of highly skilled, highly educated, and highly paid people to a relatively small number of metropolitan regions, and corresponding exodus of traditional lower- and middle-class people from those same places.
Business Week : Why Certain Cities Attract Gen Ys
Richard Florida on how members of Generation Y are picking their new hometowns as they graduate from college and enter the workforce during a recession.
The Globe and Mail : Toronto's mosaic an example for American cities
Will Wilkinson, a research fellow at Washington's Cato Institute wrote this terrific essay on Toronto's largely successful experiment in immigration – its global-straddling ethnic mosaic.
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.
The Globe and Mail : A really new deal would stimulate the economy of the future, not the past
Less than a month after taking office, the Obama administration unveiled its massive stimulus package aimed at recharging the lagging American economy - a staggering three-quarters of a trillion dollars. As the Harper administration rushes to dole out a $40-billion stimulus of its own, it's high time to ask a simple question: Are we stimulating the right things?
The Globe and Mail : We can ride the crisis out - on a wave of our own inventiveness
As part of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, Richard Florida and Roger Martin delivered a report called "Ontario in the Creative Age," commissioned by Premier Dalton McGuinty contemplating today's challenge of moving from jobs oriented to routine to jobs that hinge on creativity.
The Globe and Mail : Russia's youth ready to embrace the dawn of a new era
Richard Florida visits Russia this month and discusses the country's push to develop more of a market-based economy, having abandoned its state-run economy to the historical dustbin as well as drawing upon the similarities between the youth of both Russia and the U.S.
The Globe and Mail : Financial recovery needs a massively different mindset
Restarting economic growth this time around will require a new social and economic framework that is in line with the new idea-driven economy.
The Globe and Mail : Where a recession will hurt the most
Richard Florida and James Milay explore the the effects if a recession hits Canada suggesting that the continuing shift in Canada's economy from traditional blue-collar, working-class jobs to creative and service jobs will dampen the effects of job losses over all, but those in the working class will feel the pain much more.
The Globe and Mail : The new politics of class war point to a frightening future
Richard Florida warns of an extended period of volatility and conflict in American politics.
The Montreal Gazette : Ahead of the curve
Richard Florida's take on Montreal and it's position amidst the current economic storm.
The Globe and Mail : Individual identity vs. the financial crisis
Richard Florida on the financial crisis.
Florida Trend : Florida's Future
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.
Richard Florida suggests that the big sort poses huge implications for US economic competitiveness and a wide range of domestic economic and social issues.
The days of urban sprawl are over ...
... but not for the reasons you think. One of the few things increasing as fast as the price of oil lately has been the amount of commentary linking higher energy costs to the death of suburbia. Clearly, higher gas prices have affected where people want – or can afford – to live. Just as the demand for SUVs plummets and consumers have finally begun to see the point of hybrids, people are turning away from sprawling exurbs toward urban neighbourhoods and inner suburbs.
Monocle Magazine : How cities renew
What matters now is quality of place, defined as the intersection of three key elements of our cities: what's there, who's there and what's going on.
The Buffalo News : The Buffalo Mega-Region: Bigger Than We Know
A mega-region needs to think and act like a mega-region, not like a bunch of separate cities with empty space between them.
Richard Florida - What’s going on with America?
"...we are experiencing modern history’s third great power shift, after the rise of the West from the 15th century on and then the rise of the U.S. in the 19th century."
The Globe and Mail : The league of extraordinary mayors: small states, big ideas
Fareed Zakaria: The end result will be a “landscape that is quite different from the one we have lived in until now – one defined and directed from many places and by many peoples.”
The Globe and Mail : Tribute to a visionary who scrutinized 'everyday life'
"The diversity, of whatever kind, that is generated by cities rests on the fact that in cities so many people are so close together, and among them contain so many different tastes, skills, needs, supplies, and bees in their bonnets."
The Oregonian : Place + Happiness = Portland Prosperity
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.
The Wall Street Journal : The Rise of the Mega-Region
When people talk about economic competitiveness, the focus tends to be on nation states. In the 1980s, many were obsessed with the rise of Japan. Today, our gaze has shifted to the phenomenal growth of Brazil, Russia, India and China. But this focus on nations is off the mark.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette : Creative Politics
"The party that can bring together the working class and the creative class is likely to build a lasting majority"
The Philadelphia Inquirer : Why Phila economic future looks so bright
From where I sit, Philadelphia's future looks very bright. Trust me: I know all about the issues that confront the city. I grew up in New Jersey, went to Rutgers, and spent much of my teens and 20s hanging out in Center City. I've seen the dark days and watched the recovery.
The Globe and Mail : Social Science The Creative Voter, Obama and the class question
For the past two weeks, all eyes have focused on Barack Obama and race. A couple of weeks ago, it was Hillary Clinton's gender. A month before that, it was all about the Obama surge among young voters.
The Globe and Mail : Time to break the town-and-gown barrier
The old model of a university pumping out research results and educated students, or even commercial innovations and start-ups, are no longer sufficient. Business and political leadership have taken technology seriously; now, they must do the same with talent and tolerance. The places that don't will find that the discoveries and talent they produce will continue to migrate away.
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Why making the scene makes good cents for the rest of us
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For decades we've heard that new transport and communication technologies - from the street car to the Internet - would make geography and place irrelevant...
This People Place Is Not Square
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The Globe and Mail : A source of creative energy we're fools not to tap
The most overlooked — but most important — element of my theory and of the creative economy itself is that every human being is creative.
At the intersection of immigrant and hippie[creativeclass.com]
This is the first in a series of articles in which The Globe and Mail visits an iconic Toronto neighbourhood or event with Richard Florida.
Globe T.O. : Wake up, Toronto – you're bigger than you think
Richard Florida on his adopted city's central role in a new world order built not around nations but around mega-regions.
USA Today : A search for jobs in some of the wrong places
Richard Florida examines how in a broader creative sector, the United States will add 10 million jobs over the next decade. While the U.S. economy will add more than one million computer and engineering jobs, health care and education are expected to generate more than three times as many jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.