City brands and the making, management and communication of a city’s strongest assets in the eyes of potential residents, visitors, investors and students, has been a key occupation of economic development professionals all over the world. In this interview, Richard Florida explains why the Creative Classes are so important in achieving city strength and a competitive position.
Professor Richard Florida,
University Professors 2016
Rotman School of Management.
Research Interests: Cities, innovation and urban economic development.
Richard Florida named University Professor. The University of Toronto owes much of its reputation and stature to the quality of its eminent professors. The University recognizes unusual scholarly achievement and pre-eminence in a particular field of knowledge through the designation of University Professor. The number of such appointments does not generally exceed two per cent of the tenured faculty. Its very exclusivity stands to underline the highly prestigious nature of the University Professor designation.
On the first day of the educational project Made In Kazan the listeners expert classes made Richard Florida – economist, urbanist, author of the theory of the creative class, the professor of the School of Management named Joseph Rothman at the University of Toronto. “Indus” publishes a summary of his lectures.
Richard Florida, on the occasion of the Jane Jacobs centennial, talks about Jacobs’ enduring legacy, her role in helping shape his work, the state of cities today, and his current projects.
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From 1995 to 2015, Fast Company looks back at the people, products, and ideas that have transformed business and culture.
Richard Florida ranked among the most influential business thinkers in the world on a list known as the “Oscars of management thinking”.
Richard Florida among three University of Toronto professors and business leaders placed in the top 15 in a recent ranking of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers.
The Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers is published every two years and is the essential guide to which thinkers and which ideas matter now. Richard Florida ranked 14 of 50 top global thinkers.
