Florida’s main premise in Who’s Your City? is that the world is, in fact, “spiky,” and people make very deliberate decisions about where they live based upon a number of factors.
One of the most interesting and relevant aspects of Who’s Your City? is the interdisciplinary nature of Richard Florida’s research.
For generations of suburban kids raised in traffic, mixed-use and mass transit will define the future.
Florida offers the premise that most people do not put nearly the same amount of effort in choosing where they want to live as they do in choosing a spouse and choosing a career, but that location seems to be more predictive of our all-round personal happiness.
Cities inevitably, consistently, and dispiritingly punch below their weight politically. City-dwellers, as such, have almost no say in national politics, and invariably end up subsidizing the increasingly-anachronistic lifestyles of their rural compatriots.
The producers of the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 (CCS2) announced the participation of Dr. Richard Florida as a special lunch keynote speaker for Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Ken Gray examines how Ottawa performs on urban critic Richard Florida’s guide to choosing your home
“Who’s Your City” is about the places we choose to live and about how we have considerable opportunity to think strategically about this life decision.
Richard Florida in Vancouver speaking at the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences