Florida will be a featured speaker at the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce’s annual economic forum, Preview, on Feb. 9 at the Thomas and Mack Center.
adminJanuary 30, 2012
In this newest installment of our Creative Spaces series, we have assembled a slideshow to highlight some of the brave new offices that celebrate and enable creativity, through design, artwork, and architecture. These spaces aren’t necessarily high style — but all of them promote transparency, flexibility and cater to the new ways of working.
adminJanuary 17, 2012
In this newest installment of our Creative Spaces series, we have assembled a slideshow to celebrate and congratulate those pioneers, some of whom we’ve worked with at CCG, who are envisioning and actualizing new ways of living and working.
adminJanuary 4, 2012
Rana Florida’s series, Creative Spaces, which started out with homes, has expanded to cities with this edition featuring some of most inspired repurposed buildings we’ve seen, in Maastricht and elsewhere.
adminDecember 14, 2011
Rana Florida’s series, Creative Spaces, which started out with homes, has expanded to cities with this first edition highlighting some of Miami’s most creative and imaginative public art displays and spaces.
adminDecember 6, 2011
In this new millennium, the most influential class in society is something Richard Florida calls the “Creative Class” who boost the economy not through financial ability or skill alone, but rather through their ideas.
adminOctober 19, 2011
Richard Florida has spent the past decade talking about the virtues of the Creative Class and its ability to drive economies. The Great Reset, his fifth book on the Creative Class takes a somewhat contrarian view on the current thinking on the economic recession. The view is contrarian in that it’s more optimistic, and rooted in a belief that members of the Creative Class have the skills and talent to lead the global economy out of the current economic crisis.
adminOctober 17, 2011
Richard Florida’s interview with Monday Morning (Mondag Morgen – magazine in Scandinavia) on his book, The Great Reset, the need to find new innovative ways out of the economic crisis and the challenges that a small country like Denmark is facing right now with growing global competition?
adminOctober 12, 2011
Human progress, to a large degree, has depended on the continual expansion of social networks, which enable faster
sharing and shaping of ideas. And humanity’s greatest social innovation remains the city. As our cities grow larger, the synapses that connect them—people with exceptional social skills—are becoming ever more essential to economic growth.
adminSeptember 22, 2011