Renowned researcher and urban expert Richard Florida said the Nashville region had one of the nation’s fastest-growing economies during the Great Reset, his term for the economic tumult of the past five years.
adminSeptember 26, 2013
Talent. Technology. Talent. Those are the “three T’s” that Richard Florida, an internationally known urban theorist, says will vault a community toward positive change. Local leaders believe Utica already possesses those T’s, but they need a catalyst.
adminSeptember 12, 2013
Viewed by many as the world’s leading urban theorist, Richard Florida was in Ireland this summer, and told Ann O’Dea that tolerance was a key ingredient in any creative economy.
adminAugust 16, 2013
Dr Richard Florida, the Cultural Innovation keynote speaker at EBN Congress, answers some questions ahead of his address at the Congress on May 30. (First appeared in Ulster Business magazine.
adminMay 29, 2013
The May 3 Denver South Economic Development Partnership luncheon drew Gov. John Hickenlooper to introduce the speaker and attracted an enthusiastic, capacity crowd to the DTC Hyatt Regency ballroom. The governor came to provide the Colorado context for the event’s featured speaker, Dr. Richard Florida.
adminMay 13, 2013
Richard Florida speaks at The Creativity Conference in Washington, D.C. in a panel on Invention, Innovation, Competitiveness – Creative Industries and the New American Economy alongside President Bill Clinton.
adminApril 26, 2013
Richard Florida is the day’s last speaker at the London Conference, an annual gathering of influencers to debate the city’s challenges and opportunities, in November 2012.
The author of The Rise of the Creative Class has been cited — by such diverse figures as David Cameron and Bono — as an expert on how cities must evolve.
adminApril 10, 2013
Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class” discussed the city’s Downtown-area growth and urged regional transit development in a speech at the Detroit Policy Conference.
adminMarch 7, 2013
Atlantic magazine and Richard Florida, the author, urban affairs expert and a part-time South Florida resident, announced they are bringing a one-day conference called Start-up City: Miami to Miami Beach on Feb. 13 to explore how to build a tech hub here, building on the area’s success with the arts and urbanization.
adminJanuary 29, 2013