Interview for the British Land Blog during his recent events in London for LSE Cities and Centre for London.
adminOctober 12, 2017
Interview with Richard Florida on his new book, The New Urban Crisis along with a discussion on Edmonton.
adminOctober 11, 2017
International Swiss NZZ interview with Richard Florida on the New Urban Crisis. English translation included.
adminOctober 10, 2017
While America closes its borders, its northern neighbor is poaching some of the best tech talent in the world.
adminOctober 10, 2017
Google’s Sidewalk Labs subsidiary has apparently chosen the Toronto waterfront as the place it will create a veritable city of the future, developing and prototyping new technology-enabled ways of working, living and getting around. And Toronto is placed at or near the top of many short lists for Amazon’s new second headquarters, over which more than 50 communities across North America are competing.Why have Toronto, and Canada more broadly, suddenly become so attractive to major U.S. tech companies? The election of Donald Trump may be the veritable tipping point, but Canada’s ability to compete for top global talent has been growing for a while.
adminOctober 10, 2017
Richard Florida named one of the most influential urbanists of our time alongside Jane Jacobs and Frank Lloyd Wright.
adminOctober 10, 2017
Richard Florida is one of the most influential thinkers about cities in the postwar world. For almost two decades he championed the creative classes – artists, tech and knowledge workers and entrepreneurs – who he said would revolutionise our cities and stimulate economic growth.
Today he has changed his mind.
adminOctober 8, 2017
Florida has become quite concerned that the winners of the urban revival over the last 15-20 years — cities like New York, San Francisco, Boston and Washington — have become victims of their own success as they’ve become high-priced meccas specifically tailored to the needs and wishes of the creative class.
adminSeptember 27, 2017
Like the issues Richard Florida identifies In his latest book The New Urban Crisis, his solutions are many, varied and intimidating.
adminSeptember 25, 2017