Richard Florida has a new blog on the Atlantic website. His first post is about a new Pew poll on American consumption patterns that Felix Salmon and the Economist and others have commented on.
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida to visit Toronto’s economic development committee for a brainstorming session on ways out of the current global slump.
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida overlays the proposed high speed rail network on his map of megaregions and makes some very good points.
adminMay 15, 2009
The main cause of the new foreclosure wave appears tied more to the real economy than to the financial mess.
adminMay 15, 2009
Richard Florida’s opinions on innovation and tolerance in Turkey’s monthly magazine of Turkish Informatics Foundation. The mission of the magazine is leading Turkish companies to grow with innovation.
adminMay 11, 2009
Best-selling author and urban theorist Richard Florida, in his new book, “Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life,” suggests that despite technology and globalization, the dictatorship of location is not over, and place is not only important, it’s more important than ever.
adminMay 8, 2009
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.
adminMay 8, 2009
One of the nation’s foremost experts in economy building says that a community seeking a strong and healthy commerce must tap into the creativity of all its members. Author and adviser Richard Florida will bring his message to Naples on May 20, 2009 when he addresses community and business leaders at a program entitled “It Pays to Be Creative,” part of the ongoing Project Innovation sponsored by the Economic Development Council of Collier County.
adminMay 8, 2009
Working Paper Series: Martin Prosperity Research prepared by Richard Florida, Charlotta Melander, and Tim Gulden on the role of cities and metropolitan areas.
adminMay 4, 2009