Rana Florida believes that world peace can be achieved through two simple things; education and opportunity.
adminFebruary 4, 2015
FIU and the Creative Class Group (CCG) founded by Richard Florida have joined forces to launch the FIU-Miami Creative City Initiative a project to harness creative and entrepreneurial forces that can help accelerate greater Miami’s transformation into a creative economy. The FIU-Miami Creative City Initiative will engage political business and cultural leaders faculty students alumni and the greater community in a dialogue on how creativity culture and design can drive a regional economy.
adminJanuary 26, 2015
South Florida Business Journal : FIU and Richard Florida launch initiative to boost art, design jobs
Florida International University will work with bestselling author Richard Florida to research and start a discussion to help boost Miami jobs in art, design and other creative fields.
adminJanuary 26, 2015
In this op-ed Richard Florida examines the significant economic division between conservative “red states” and liberal “blue states.”
adminJanuary 5, 2015
Skip the gift cards. What your employees really want from you is to stress less.
adminDecember 19, 2014
Richard Florida Interview with Spanish digital magazine about technology and innovation, FUNDETEC.
adminDecember 18, 2014
America’s great divide is not between poor cities and affluent suburbs; its great metropolitan areas are patchworks of concentrated advantage and concentrated disadvantage that stretch across both. Some of its suburbs are thriving; others are in a steep decline. In this new, fractured and divvied metropolitan geography, the traditional juxtaposition between “urban” and suburban” has lost much of its meaning.
adminDecember 17, 2014
An ever-growing group of
Americans is proving vital to
our society. Its members are
educated, employed in a variety
of industries, and engaged in a
lifestyle that values individuality,
originality, and participation.
They’re steadfast in their
goals, resolute in their attitudes
and ideals, and just plain happy
with the paths they’ve decided
to follow-so much so that
they are reshaping commerce
and communities.They are the “Creative Class”.
adminDecember 17, 2014