Urban Times’, Josh O’Conner, interviews Richard Florida in conjunction with the release of his new book The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited.
adminJuly 3, 2012
Artists, innovators, and diversity have earned Worcester the #14 spot in best-selling author, Richard Florida’s newest book, The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited.
adminJuly 3, 2012
Excerpted with permission from The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited: 10th Anniversary Edition, by Richard Florida.
adminJuly 3, 2012
As his ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’ reaches its tenth anniversary, Richard Florida has a plan to keep the artists from starving. It involves a lot more than art. Florida describes how creatives have fared relatively well in the economic downturn of the time between editions of the book.
adminJuly 3, 2012
Thursdays at the Huffington Post, Rana Florida, CEO of The Creative Class Group, shares her conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, personal lives, careers, and more. She also answers readers’ questions about how they can optimize their lives. This week’s question about is about team building retreats.
adminJuly 3, 2012
In Richard Florida’s new book The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited, he’s compiled a list of the top tech cities in the U.S.Seattle, home to Microsoft and Amazon, claims the top place from Silicon Valley, which ranked first in his last book. Silicon Valley, which consists of the San Jose metro area, ranks second followed by the greater San Francisco area. Portland, Oregon claims the fourth spot followed by Austin.
adminJune 29, 2012
Creativity is now the main driver of America’s economy, and is more and more concentrated in and around cities. Richard Florida reports on the trend—and lists the nation’s most creative metro areas, from Boulder to metropolitan Austin to the Washington, D.C. region.
adminJune 27, 2012
This newest installment of Creative Spaces not only highlights amazing pools at exclusive resorts that many of us can only dream of but also great pools to dip in at a neighborhood park.
adminJune 25, 2012
This article was adapted from Richard Florida’s new book “The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited” from Basic Books. His nitial research over a decade ago identified the rise of the creative class as a key factor in America’s cities and economy overall. What has struck him since is that the effects of class are not just limited to cities, jobs and the economy. Class increasingly structures virtually every aspect of our society, culture and daily lives — from our politics and religion to where we live and how we get to work, from the kind of education we can provide for our children to our very health and happiness.
adminJune 25, 2012