The world needs to grow in a way that it can meet the needs of today while preserving the resources for tomorrow. Global City 2009 held in Abu Dhabi recently highlighted some seminal issues confronting urban development – and the way cities must tackle them.
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.
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.
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.
Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” and “Who’s Your City,” urged broadcasters gathered in the Las Vegas Hilton at the annual National Association of Brfoadcasters event to view upheaval in the economy as an opportunity.
Economic Development Council of Collier County’s Project Innovation Program is bringing Richard Florida to headline its “It Pays to be Creative” program in May 2009.
Interview with Richard Florida at the recent events in Schio and Maniago, Italy hosted by Nordesteuropa Editore SRL.
Tim Harford finds out why deciding where you live could be the most important decision of your life.
Richard and Rana Florida recently invited a cross-section of Torontonians to their ultramodern Rosedale home to celebrate Ms. Florida’s recent appointment as a board member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
