If the UAE is viewed as a place less open to, immigrants or young people, the country will fall considerably behind other creative global giants, says Richard Florida, Author, Who’s Your City? and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto, in an interview with the Khaleej Times here.
In the just-released Canadian edition of his best-selling guide to cities, Who’s Your City? academic Richard Florida says Canada’s urban municipalities need to stop being so humble, because they already have many of the qualities American cities are trying to achieve. They have a strong middle class, relatively safe streets, dense urban footprints, a strong social safety net and well-educated workers.
Richard Florida published “The Rise of the Creative Class,” which set forth a cluster of indicators that predicted a flourishing urban community. Talent, Tolerance and Technology are Florida’s “three T’s,” qualities that Durham can claim in abundance. “To attract creative people, generate innovation and stimulate economic growth, a place must have all three.” (source: Catalytix, Inc., A Richard Florida Creativity Group)
The story covers the importance of creativity in the modern economy and the advice Professor Florida gave to Korea.
The prediction of death to the American dream of owning a home is replaced by a new landscape of technological and scientific prosperity as seen by writer Richard Florida in his article “How the crash will reshape America”.
The conclusion of the two-day Creative Communities Leadership Program seminar in Roanoke with four fantastic initiatives.
Creative Class Group led CCLP for the city of Roanoke with a 2 day seminar called the Roanoke Creative Communities Leadership Program.
The world may indeed have shrunk to one global village due to technology. But that does not make the city you choose to live in any less important, according to renowned urban theorist and best selling author of Who’s Your City? Richard Florida.
Richard Florida is talking about a fundamental “reset” in the North American economy as a consequence of the crash.
