The merging of the Noosa Creative Alliance and the Sunshine Coast to create the Sunshine Coast Regional Alliance in Noosa, Australia.
Richard Florida gave voice to a movement to revitalize cities by attracting and nurturing the “creative class” . There is no shortage of evidence of the power of the creative class to transform post-industrial cities, but how music, along with the companies that follow and feed it, contribute to the Creative Class is just beginning to get special attention.
“The Roanoke region is poised at a crossroads-holding on to its industrial history while venturing into a creative economy that may just be the key to its future.”
The City of Roanoke engaged in a year-long Creative Communities Leadership project that gives emerging leaders the tools they need to generate greater economic prosperity in their region.
Richard Florida’s speaking in Naples, Florida as part of Project Innovation, a community-wide project the Economic Development Council of Collier County launched late last year to build an action plan for a better economy.
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.
Part of the Working Paper Series by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Kevin Stolarick on the factors that shape economic development in Canadian regions.
To help power the local economy, The Economic Development Council of Collier County established Project Innovation, a series of programs which concluded with Richard Florida’s presentation in May 2009.
Richard Florida discusses how creative business decisions will help Canada
withstand the recession at the 11th annual CMA Alberta Accountability Summit
on May 22, 2009, at the TELUS Convention Centre in Calgary.