In March’s issue of The Atlantic, Richard Florida looks at the potential ramifications of the current economic crisis on our country’s urban landscape and wonders what changes will be brought about.
adminFebruary 19, 2009
With its March 2009 issue, The Atlantic is targeting metro areas with separate covers specifically tailored to their newsstands. The issue features a cover story by urban studies Richard Florida, best known for his work about the “creative class.” The story is titled, “How the Crash Will Reshape America,” and while it points to declines in the suburbs and the Sun Belt, it also reports good news about certain metro areas.
adminFebruary 17, 2009
What makes a community desirable and sustainable? The answer, according to researcher and University of Toronto professor of business Richard Florida is the strength of its creative class.
Roanoke plans to test Florida’s theory by becoming the latest city to try the Creative Communities Leadership Program.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
The Creative Communities Leadership Projects “give emerging leaders the tools they need to generate greater economic prosperity in their region.” In the Spring of 2009, they will be bringing those tools to bear on Roanoke.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
Roanoke CCLP to be launched at a two-day seminar for selected leaders where the Creative Class Group will work with the volunteers to build an understanding of the creative economy, the community’s 4Ts (Talent, Technology, Tolerance and Territory Assets), identify strategic economic goals and develop a framework of projects to engage the Roanoke community.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
Might the crisis roiling the economy reshape the American landscape? Is it a turning point in the country’s social geography? As the economy mends and growth begins anew, what cities or regions will be best-suited to take advantage of the change? Urban theorist Richard Florida has some interesting thoughts on those questions in a major piece in The Atlantic, and his answers are encouraging for Portland and the Northwest.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
In Richard Florida’s recent The Atlantic essay, he proposes that what is bad for financial services firms may be good for artists and psychiatrists.
adminFebruary 16, 2009
Richard Florida’s piece in The Atlantic, “How the Crash Will Reshape America” suggests that the current economic crisis has the potential to remake the country’s economic geography in the same way that the crash of 1873 and the Great Depression did.
adminFebruary 16, 2009