At a conference in Pamplona, Spain, Richard Florida made it clear to ScienceGuide correspondent Roy van Dalm that countries pumping unlimited funds to prevent companies from going under doesn’t really get his approval.
adminFebruary 24, 2009
Richard Florida, in The Atlantic Monthly article argues that the key to recovery from the housing bubble and financial crash is to remove homeownership “from its long-privileged place at the center of the U.S. economy.”
adminFebruary 23, 2009
Richard Koman suggests we are at an inflection point where we either withdraw into ourselves and exacerbate a deep depression or infuse society and the economy with the technology paradigms that should mark Western society in the 21st century.
adminFebruary 23, 2009
University of Toronto professor Florida argued in his groundbreaking 2002 book, The Rise of the Creative Class, that the young, urban creative types who are revitalizing cities tend to be far more socially liberal and tolerant of diversity than the average evangelical.
adminFebruary 22, 2009
Richard Florida’s thought provoking and revolutionary ideas about the future of housing and economic development.
adminFebruary 22, 2009
Excerpts from The Atlantic’s “How the Crash Will Reshape America: The Winners and Losers.”
adminFebruary 21, 2009
Amid the global recession, some are predicting the decline of Las Vegas.The most serious-minded articulation of this viewpoint comes from renowned urban studies professor Richard Florida, who wrote the cover story, “How the Crash Will Reshape America,” in the March issue of The Atlantic magazine.
adminFebruary 21, 2009
The DaytonCREATE initiative was launched last year with the help of economist and best-selling author Richard Florida. He urges communities that want to thrive economically to recruit and cultivate a “creative class” — artists, musicians, engineers and high-tech workers, all people who think and create for a living. A number of projects have grown out of the work of Dayton’s creative “catalysts.”
adminFebruary 21, 2009
Blaska’s take on the current financial crisis with reference to Richard Florida and March’s issue of the Atlantic-At critical moments, Americans have always looked forward, not back, and surprised the world with our resilience. Can we do it again? [The Atlantic: How the Crash Will Reshape America]
adminFebruary 19, 2009