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St. Louis Commerce Magazine : Book Review Who’s Your City?

Richard Florida presents a potent argument for why a few cities are emerging as extremely successful economic powerhouses, while most are in decline. Florida argues that we are now able to choose a place to live from cities around the country and all one needs to do is match a city’s personality and social possibilities with our individual needs and preferences also arguing that these needs can change with
different stages — early career, raising a family and retirement — of life.

adminJanuary 21, 2009

Creative Class

Simcoe.com : Busking evokes sense of place

Florida is a leading advocate of developing culturally vibrant communities, saying they attract the ‘creative classes,’ leading to economic growth by building a city where people want to live, play, work and invest. This would be a refreshing direction, one that could add charm and creativity to downtown Barrie, fostering a ‘sense of place.’

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Creative Class

Forbes : A Bailout For Yuppies

Richard Florida, has urged President-elect Barack Obama to eschew crude investments in traditional production and a renewed housing market in favor of goodies directed to what he calls the creative industry.

adminJanuary 13, 2009

Creative Class

Tri-State Defender : Author says Memphis is short of workers with creative skills

President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to strengthen the federal commitment to our cities and it’s importance is seen with his creation of a new position, the White House Office of Urban Policy. Along these lines is Richard Florida’s view that the concept of the creative class of workers is a key element of metropolitan stability and progress.

adminJanuary 11, 2009

Creative Class

Times & Transcript : That’s all you need to succeed

New Brunswick’s Frye Festival has given residents and visitors to the province a plethora of special events year round helping to make it the type of “creative” city Richard Florida talks about.

adminJanuary 7, 2009

Files / Working Papers

Financiers of Innovation

Venture Capital, Technological Change, and
Industrial Development by Richard Florida and Martin Kenney.

adminDecember 28, 2008

Files / Working Papers

For Knowledge and Profit

University-Industry Research Centers, Federal Science Policy and the Research University by Richard Florida, Wesley Cohen and Lucien Randazzese.

adminDecember 28, 2008

Creative Class Who's Your City News Articles

The New York Times : Former Bankers Turn to a Creative Plan B

Richard Florida, author of “Who’s Your City?” and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, sees the gravitational pull away from Wall Street and toward more creative industries as part of a necessary economic recalibration.

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Creative Class

Times & Transcript : Self-sufficiency and the creative economy

Part 2 of a 3 part series by David Hawkins on the Creative Economy.C

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The Globe and Mail : Russia’s youth ready to embrace the dawn of a new era

Richard Florida visits Russia this month and discusses the country’s push to develop more of a market-based economy, having abandoned its state-run economy to the historical dustbin as well as drawing upon the similarities between the youth of both Russia and the U.S.

adminDecember 28, 2008