Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
by Richard Florida · 28 Jun 2009 · 325pp · 73,035 words
, esa.un.org/unpp. 5 “Q&A with Michael Porter,” Business Week, August 21, 2006, www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_34/b3998460.htm. 6 Richard Florida, “The World is Spiky,” Atlantic Monthly, October 2005. 7 Gulden used the light that is visible from space at night as a basis for estimating
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consistently estimates economic activity for every 30 arc-second grid cell (less than 1 square kilometer) in the world. For more on this methodology, see Richard Florida, Timothy Gulden, and Charlotta Mellander, “The Rise of the Mega-region,” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society 1, 1, 2008. See also William Nordhaus
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, Jihad vs. McWorld: How the Planet Is Both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means for Democracy, Crown, 1995. 18 Tairan Li and Richard Florida, “Talent, Technological Innovation, and Economic Growth in China,” February 2006. Available at creative class.com. 19 Jonathan Watts, “Thousands of Villagers Riot as China Enforces
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Megalopolis,” Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston Branch, April 2004, www.dallasfed.org/research/houston/2004/hb0403.html. 9 On Montreal, see Kevin Stolarick and Richard Florida, “Creativity, Connections, and Innovation: A Study of Linkages in the Montréal Region,” Environment and Planning A, 38, 10, 2006, pp. 1799-1817. 10 Dominic Wilson
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, Scaling, and the Pace of Life in Cities,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 24, 2007, pp. 7301-7306. 8 Robert Axtell and Richard Florida, “Emergent Cities: Micro-foundations of Zipf’s Law,” March 2006. Available at creativeclass.com. 9 George K. Zipf, Human Behaviour and the Principle of Least
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, Simon & Schuster, 2004. 7 Edward Glaeser and Christopher Berry, The Divergence of Human Capital Levels Across Cities, Harvard Institute of Economic Research, August 2005. 8 Richard Florida, “Where the Brains Are,” Atlantic Monthly, October 2006, p. 34. 9 Joseph Gyourko, Christopher Mayer, and Todd Sinai, “Superstar Cities,” National Bureau of Economic Research
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with the term “knowledge worker” from his 1962 book The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States, Princeton University Press, 1962. 3 See Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, Basic Books, 2002. Data updated by Kevin Stolarick. 4 “The World’s Richest People,” Forbes, March 8, 2007. 5
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Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, and Kevin Stolarick, “Inside the Black Box of Economic Development: Human Capital, the Creative Class, and Tolerance,” Journal of Economic Geography, 8, 5,
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and Terry Nichols Clark, “The City as an Entertainment Machine,” Research in Urban Sociology: Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment 6, 2001, pp. 357-378. 23 Richard Florida and M. Scott Jackson, “Sonic City: The Evolving Economic Geography of the Music Industry.” Journal of Planning Education and Research, forthcoming, 2009. 24 “Jack White
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Economy, Collins, 2007. 8 Ryan Avent, “Are Superstar Cities Super Investments?” The Bellows, May 22, 2007. Available at www.ryanavent.com/blog/?p=403. 9 Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander, “There Goes the Neighborhood: How and Why Artists, Bohemians, and Gays Affect Housing Values,” 2007. Available at creativeclass.com. 10 John D
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War II World Wide Web Xerox Yale University Yankelovich Young and the Restless, The Yuppie elderly Zipf, George Zucker, Lynne Zurich(fig.) Copyright © 2008 by Richard Florida International edition published by Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in
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-Publication Data Florida, Richard L. Who’s your city? : how the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life / Richard Florida. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. eISBN : 978-0-786-72663-9 1. Human geography. 2. Human geography—Economic aspects. 3. Globalization—Economic aspects
The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work
by Richard Florida · 22 Apr 2010 · 265pp · 74,941 words
The Great Reset How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity Richard Florida For Zak Contents Preface Part I: Past as Prologue 1. The Great Reset 2. The Crisis Most Like Our Own 3. Urbanism as Innovation 4.
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of You 21. Faster Than a Speeding Bullet 22. Renting the Dream 23. Resetting Point References Searchable Terms Acknowledgments About the Author Other Books by Richard Florida Copyright About the Publisher Preface It isn’t as though we didn’t see it coming. To many of us, it may feel as though
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during the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870–1920,” Capitalism and Society 1, no. 3 (2006), retrieved from www.bepress.com/cas/vol1/iss3/art5. Richard Florida and Mark Samber, “Capital and Creative Destruction: Venture Capital and Regional Growth in U.S. Industrialization,” in The New Industrial Geography, Regions, Regulation and Institutions
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wrote my undergraduate honors thesis at Rutgers and my doctoral dissertation at Columbia on this, as well as several of my earliest published papers. See Richard Florida and Marshall Feldman, “Housing in U.S. Fordism,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 12, no. 2 (1988): 187–210
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; Richard Florida and Andrew Jonas, “U.S. Urban Policy: The Postwar State and Capitalist Regulation,” Antipode 23, no. 4 (1991): 349–384. 5. Data on average travel
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in the U.S. Economy,” report for the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Global Insight, 2006. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Conference of Mayors. 3. Richard Florida, “A Creative Crossroads,” Washington Post, May 7, 2006, retrieved from www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/05/AR2006050501750.html; Florida, “Where the
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Brains Are,” Atlantic, October 2006. 4. Richard Florida, Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life (New York: Basic Books, 2008
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). 5. Richard Florida, Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Canadian edition (Toronto: Random House
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Towns Are Looking Smart,” Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2009. 7. I provide figures on these trends in Richard Florida, “Town, Gown, and Unemployment,” Atlantic, May 20, 2009, retrieved from http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/ richard_florida/2009/05. 8. Edward L. Glaeser, “How Some Places Fare Better in Hard Times,” New York Times, March
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.2 percent in Mansfield. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, retrieved from www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.t01.htm. 14. Martin Kenney and Richard Florida, Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); Daniel Gross, “Big Three, Meet the
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my “Worsening Unemployment,” Atlantic, July 3, 2009; “Unemployment’s Geography,” Atlantic, June 5, 2009. For our state-level findings, see Jason Rentfrow, Charlotta Mellander, and Richard Florida, “Happy States of America: A State-Level Analysis of Psychological, Economic, and Social Well-being,” Journal of Research in Personality 43, no. 3 (December 2009
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www.calculatedriskblog.com/2008/11/house-price-to-income-ratio.html. Our calculations and map can be found at Richard Florida, “Bubble Cities,” Atlantic, May 24, 2009, retrieved from http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/ richard_florida/2009/05/bubble_cities.php. 9. Income is a broad measure that includes not only how much somebody earns
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Bulldozers the Best Neighbors?” CNBC.com, May 5, 2009, retrieved from www.cnbc.com/id/30580830. Also see Richard Florida, “The Suburban Bulldozer,” Atlantic, May 11, 2009, retrieved from http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/ richard_florida/2009/05/the_suburban_bulldozer.php. The phrase “federal bulldozer” originates with Martin Anderson’s book The Federal Bulldozer
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, “America’s Loss Is the World’s Gain: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part 4,” March 2, 2009, retrieved from http://ssrn.com/abstract=1348616; Richard Florida, The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent (New York: Harper Collins, 2005). 12. “The Nature of Wealth,” Economist, October 8
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.org/poems/blake01.html. 2. Mort Zuckerman, “The Free Market Is Not Up to the Job of Creating Work,” Financial Times, October 18, 2009. 3. Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, as updated by the Martin Prosperity Institute (New York: Basic Books, 2002). 4. Employment projections are from Bureau of
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. “Unemployment on the Rise: Who’s Hit Most by the Recession?” Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, June 21, 2009. 6. Richard Florida and Roger Martin, “Ontario in the Creative Age,” Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2009. 7. As quoted in Scott Lilly
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, the fifty U.S. states, and a hundred or so countries around the world. For our state-level findings, see Jason Rentfrow, Charlotta Mellander, and Richard Florida, “Happy States of America: A State-level Analysis of Psychological, Economic, and Social Well-being,” Journal of Research in Personality, 43, no. 6 (2009): 1073
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Northeastern Seaboard of the United States (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1961). For a more detailed discussion of how we define and identify megaregions, see Richard Florida, Tim Gulden, and Charlotta Mellander, “The Rise of the Mega-Region,” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 1, no. 3, (2008), 459–476, and
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Richard Florida, Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life (New York: Basic Books, 2008).
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All, or None of the Above? Review of Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat,” Journal of Economic Literature 43, no. 1 (2007): 83–126; Richard Florida, “The World Is Spiky,” Atlantic, October 2006, retrieved from www.theatlantic.com/images/issues/200510/world-is-spiky.pdf. 4. Adam Hochberg, “In Ariz., Luring
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-jobs-rated; Florida, Who’s Your City? 14. Roughly between eighteen and twenty-nine years of age at the time the survey was carried out. Richard Florida, “Why Certain Cities Attract Gen Ys,” Business Week, June 2009, retrieved from www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jun2009/ca2009069_660226.htm. 15. Boston was third
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current top high-speed rail speeds from Transportation Quarterly. Driving time estimates are from Google maps. See Richard Florida, “Mega-Regions and High-Speed Rail,” Atlantic, May 4, 2009, retrieved from http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/richard_florida/2009/05/mega-regions_and_high-speed_rail.php. 7. Ryan Avent, “Why Railroads Will Make Us
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the details large and small. She’s the love of my life and fills every day with fun, passion, and boundless energy. About the Author RICHARD FLORIDA is the author of the national and international bestsellers The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City? He is the director of
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and the founder of the Creative Class Group. www.creativeclass.com Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins author. ALSO BY RICHARD FLORIDA Who’s Your City? The Flight of the Creative Class The Rise of the Creative Class The Breakthrough Illusion Beyond Mass Production Copyright THE GREAT
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RESET. Copyright © 2010 by Richard Florida. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Florida, Richard L. The great reset: how new ways of living and working drive post-crash prosperity / by Richard Florida.—1st ed. p. cm. Summary: “From the author of the bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class, a book that frames the economic meltdown of
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class?and What We Can Do About It
by Richard Florida · 9 May 2016 · 356pp · 91,157 words
. Title: The new urban crisis : how our cities are increasing inequality, deepening segregation, and failing the middle class—and what we can do about it / Richard Florida. Description: New York : Basic Books, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016042401 (print) | LCCN 2016057434 (ebook) | ISBN 9780465079742 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780465097784 (ebook) Subjects
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captures countries’ capabilities in technology, talent, and tolerance) in 139 nations, we arrived at two important conclusions. Figure 5.3: Inequality Versus Global Creativity Source: Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, and Karen King, The Global Creativity Index 2015 (Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, 2015). First, more innovative and creative economies actually have lower levels
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, and Tao Ran, Global Metro Monitor, Brookings Institution, 2015, www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2015/01/22-global-metro-monitor, and nighttime light emissions from Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, and Tim Gulden, “Global Metropolis: Assessing Economic Activity in Urban Centers Based on Nighttime Satellite Images,” Professional Geographer 64, no. 2 (2010):
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each and every day with her boundless energy and passion for living. I dedicate this book to our newest arrival, Mila Simone Florida. © Lorne Bridgman Richard Florida is University Professor and Director of Cities at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and a Distinguished
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Michigan Press, 1989); Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996). 2. Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life (New York: Basic Books, 2002); Florida, The Rise
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Neighborhoods, 1970–2005,” Cities Centre, University of Toronto, 2010, www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/pdfs/curp/tnrn/Three-Cities-Within-Toronto-2010-Final.pdf. See also Richard Florida, “No Longer One Toronto,” Globe and Mail, October 22, 2010, www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-longer-one-toronto/article4329894. CHAPTER 1: THE URBAN CONTRADICTION
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of Progress Toward Racial Equality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013). Some of the key research studies by my team that inform this book include: Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander, “The Geography of Inequality: Difference and Determinants of Wage and Income Inequality across US Metros,” Regional Studies 50, no. 1 (2014):
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1–14; Richard Florida, Zara Matheson, Patrick Adler, and Taylor Brydges, The Divided City and the Shape of the New Metropolis (Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management
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, University of Toronto, 2015), http://martinprosperity.org/media/Divided-City.pdf; Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander, Segregated City: The Geography of Economic Segregation in America’s Metros (Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
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“The Rise of the Mega-Region,” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 1, no. 3 (2008): 459–476. The venture capital figures are from Richard Florida and Karen King, Venture Capital Goes Urban: Tracking Venture Capital and Startup Activity Across US Zip Codes (Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management
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, University of Toronto, 2016), http://martinprosperity.org/media/Startup-US-2016_Venture-Capital-Goes-Urban.pdf; Richard Florida and Karen King, The Rise of the Urban Startup Neighborhood: Mapping Micro-Clusters of Venture Capital–Based Startups (Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of
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Habitat, State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013: Prosperity of Cities (New York: Routledge, 2013), https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/745habitat.pdf. 7. Richard Florida, “The World Is Spiky,” Atlantic Monthly (October 2005), 48–51, www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/images/issues/200510/world-is-spiky.pdf. 8. John Schoales
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and Geoffrey B. West, “Urban Scaling and Its Deviations: Revealing the Structure of Wealth, Innovation, and Crime Across Cities,” PLOS ONE (November 10, 2010). 10. Richard Florida, Hugh Kelly, Steven Pedigo, and Rosemary Scanlon, New York City: The Great Reset, NYU School of Professional Studies, July 2015, www.pageturnpro.com/New-York
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“Has the Expansion of American Cities Slowed Down?” BuildZoom, May 15, 2016, www.buildzoom.com/blog/cities-expansion-slowing. This discussion is also based on Richard Florida, “Blame Geography for High Housing Prices?” CityLab, April 18, 2016, www.citylab.com/housing/2016/04/blame-geography-for-high-housing-prices/478680. Austin is
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should-concern-us-all. 10. Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1994 [1899]). 11. Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, and Isabel Ritchie, The Geography of the Global Super-Rich (Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2016), http
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Capital Financed Innovation (Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2014), http://martinprosperity.org/media/StartupCity-CMR-FINAL-formatted.pdf. 15. Richard Florida and Karen King, Venture Capital Goes Urban: Tracking Venture Capital and Startup Activity Across US Zip Codes (Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management
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, University of Toronto, 2016), http://martinprosperity.org/content/venture-capital-goes-urban; Richard Florida and Karen King, Rise of the Urban Startup Neighborhood: Mapping Micro-Clusters of Venture Capital–Based Startups (Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management
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and the City: The Making of New York’s Startup Community (San Francisco: Mirandola Press, 2013). 19. “Stern’s Urbanization Project Hosts a Conversation with Richard Florida and Fred Wilson,” NYU Stern School of Business, October 9, 2013, www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/conversation-florida-wilson. 20. Paul Graham
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that have the biggest influence on popular music, we created a Music Popularity Index, a composite measure of the fans, views, and plays accumulated. See Richard Florida, “The Geography of America’s Pop Music Entertainment Complex,” CityLab, May 28, 2013, www.citylab.com/design/2013/05/geography-americas-pop-musicentertainment-complex/5219
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. 34. Richard Florida, “The Geography of Pop Music Superstars,” CityLab, August 27, 2015, www.citylab.com/tech/2015/08/the-geography-of-pop-music-superstars/402445. 35.
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is-sucking-up-pulitzer-winners. 22. Michael Barton, “An Exploration of the Importance of the Strategy Used to Identify Gentrification,” Urban Studies, December 3, 2014; Richard Florida, “No One’s Very Good at Correctly Identifying Gentrification,” CityLab, December 15, 2014, www.citylab.com/housing/2014/12/no-ones-very-good-at-correctly
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is from the US Census Bureau, “American Community Survey,” www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs. 10. On the worsening trend in inequality across metros, see Richard Florida, “Where the Great Recession Made Inequality Worse,” CityLab, August 4, 2014, www.citylab.com/politics/2014/08/where-the-great-recession-made-inequality-worse/375480
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2003–2013,” Monthly Labor Review, September 2015, www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/measuring-wage-inequality-within-and-across-metropolitan-areas-2003-13.htm; Richard Florida, “Wage Inequality and America’s Most Successful Cities,” CityLab, October 7, 2015, www.citylab.com/work/2015/10/how-wage-inequality-is-playing-out-americas
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.S. Metro Areas,” Brookings Metro Monitor 2016, Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, January 2016, www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2016/01/metro-monitor#V0G10420. 29. Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, and Karen King, The Global Creativity Index 2015 (Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2015), http://martinprosperity.org
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/content/the-global-creativity-index-2015/; Richard Florida, “Greater Competitiveness Does Not Have to Mean Greater Inequality,” CityLab, October 11, 2011, www.citylab.com/work/2011/10/greater-competitiveness-does-not-greater-inequality
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of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: Childhood Exposure Effects and County-Level Estimates,” NBER Working Paper, National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2015. Crime and violence: Richard Florida and John Roman, “There Are Plenty More Baltimores,” CityLab, May 4, 2015, www.citylab.com/crime/2015/05/there-are-plenty-more-baltimores/392264. Murders
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those types of segregation in a metro to all other metros. The Appendix provides a detailed description of our variables, data, and methodology. Also see Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander, Segregated City: The Geography of Economic Segregation in America’s Metro Areas (Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University
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Szymon Marcin´czak, Maarten van Ham, and Sako Musterd, eds., Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West (London: Routledge, 2015). Also see Richard Florida, “Economic Segregation and Inequality in Europe’s Cities,” CityLab, November 16, 2016, www.citylab.com/work/2015/11/economic-segregation-and-inequality-in-europes-cities
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, July 2013. Also see his book Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Inequality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013); Richard Florida, “The Persistent Geography of Disadvantage,” CityLab, July 25, 2013, www.citylab.com/housing/2013/07/persistent-geography-disadvantage/6231. 40. Sean Reardon, Lindsay Fox,
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1 (July 2015): 78–97. 41. Jonathan Rothwell and Douglas Massey, “Geographic Effects on Intergenerational Income Mobility,” Economic Geography 91, no. 1 (2014): 3–106; Richard Florida, “How Your Neighborhood Affects Your Paycheck,” CityLab, January 16, 2015, www.citylab.com/work/2015/01/how-your-neighborhood-affects-your-paycheck/384536. 42. Raj
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institutions; and natural amenities such as parks, open space, riverfronts, and coastlines, which I do not include here for reasons of space and legibility. See Richard Florida and Patrick Adler, “The Patchwork Metropolis: The Morphology of the Divided Post-Industrial City,” Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, September
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2015, http://martinprosperity.org/media/2015-MPIWP-006_Patchwork-Metropolis_Florida-Adler.pdf; see also Richard Florida, Zara Matheson, Patrick Adler, and Taylor Brydges, The Divided City and the Shape of the New Metropolis (Toronto: Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of
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metropolis. 4. Terry Clark, Richard Lloyd, Kenneth Wong, and Pushpam Jain, “Amenities Drive Urban Growth,” Journal of Urban Affairs 24, no. 5 (2002): 493–515; Richard Florida, “The Economic Geography of Talent,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92 (2002): 743–755; Edward Glaeser, Jed Kolko, and Albert Saiz, “Consumer City
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detroits-new-superhero. 13. Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005). 14. Richard Florida, “Visions of Pittsburgh’s Future,” Pittsburgh Quarterly (Fall 2013), http://pittsburghquarterly.com/pq-commerce/pq-region/item/82-visions-of-pittsburgh-s-future.html. 15
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Kneebone, “The Growth and Spread of Concentrated Poverty, 2000 to 2008–2012,” Brookings Institution, July 31, 2014, www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2014/concentrated-poverty; Richard Florida, “The Living-in-the-Basement Generation,” Washington Monthly (November/December 2013), www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november_december_2013/features/the_livinginthebasement_genera047358.php; Kristen Lewis
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Dave Troy, “The Real Republican Adversary? Population Density,” Davetroy.com, November 19, 2012, http://davetroy.com/posts/the-real-republican-adversary-population-density. See also Richard Florida and Sara Johnson, “What Republicans Are Really Up Against: Population Density,” CityLab, November 26, 2012, www.citylab.com/politics/2012/11/what-republicans-are-really
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poor/8083. 13. Remi Jedwab and Dietrich Vollrath, “Urbanization Without Growth in Historical Perspective,” Explorations in Economic History 57 (July 2015): 1–94. 14. Ibid.; Richard Florida, “The Problem of Urbanization Without Economic Growth” CityLab, June 12, 2015, www.citylab.com/work/2015/06/the-problem-of-urbanization-without-economic-growth/395648
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. 15. Richard Florida, “Why Big Cities Matter in the Developing World,” CityLab, January 14, 2014, www.citylab.com/work/2014/01/why-big-cities-matter-developing-world/6025
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. 16. The data are from Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, and Tim Gulden, “Global Metropolis: Assessing Economic Activity in Urban Centers Based on Nighttime Satellite Images,” Professional Geographer 64, no. 2 (2010):
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Chang-Tai Hsieh, “Why Do Cities Matter? Local Growth and Aggregate Growth,” April 2015, http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/chang-tai.hsieh/research/growth.pdf. 13. Richard Florida, “The Mega-Regions of North America,” Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, March 11, 2014, http://martinprosperity.org/content/the-mega
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Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, December 2015, www.jchs.harvard.edu/research/publications/americas-rental-housing-expanding-options-diverse-and-growing-demand. 18. Richard Florida, “The Steady Rise of Renting,” CityLab, February 16, 2016, www.citylab.com/housing/2016/02/the-rise-of-renting-in-the-us/462948. 19.
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23. Zeynep Ton, The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014); Richard Florida, “The Business Case for Paying Service Workers More,” CityLab, March 3, 2014, www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2014/03/case-paying-service-workers-more
World Cities and Nation States
by Greg Clark and Tim Moonen · 19 Dec 2016
that Toronto should have provincial powers over regional issues such as infrastructure, and a much more direct relationship with the federal government (Lu, 2010). Urbanist Richard Florida has argued that, “Toronto needs the resources of a province to become a truly global city” (Florida in Tapscott, 2014). 146 World Cities and Nation
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
by Mike Isaac · 2 Sep 2019 · 444pp · 127,259 words
-sparked-hr-complaint. 75 “Software is eating the world”: Andreessen Horowitz, Software Is Eating the World, https://a16z.com/. 75 deals increased by 73 percent: Richard Florida and Ian Hathaway, “How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing,” Harvard Business Review, November 27, 2018, https://hbr.org/2018/11/how-the
Peak Car: The Future of Travel
by David Metz · 21 Jan 2014 · 133pp · 36,528 words
is in cities that we attain critical mass. Persuasive arguments, both economic and cultural, in favour of cities are articulated by two prominent US academics. Richard Florida maintains that metropolitan regions with high concentrations of technology workers, artists and musicians exhibit a higher level of economic development. This well‑educated ‘creative class
Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports From a Sinking Society
by Thomas Frank · 18 Jun 2018 · 182pp · 55,234 words
the permutations of urban hipness that have flickered by since we first undertook that mission: Rollerblading near water. “Potemkin bohemias” like Chicago’s Wicker Park. Richard Florida’s “creative class.” And while each of these fads came and went, here is what also happened: utilities were privatized to disastrous effect, the real
The London Problem: What Britain Gets Wrong About Its Capital City
by Jack Brown · 14 Jul 2021 · 101pp · 24,949 words
hotly disputed, but ‘what is clear is that these concerns pose a major challenge to the viability of the world city model.’58 The urbanist Richard Florida connects this situation directly to major political events in the mid-2010s: The divides separating global superstar cities from the rest of their own countries
Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
by Colin Ellard · 14 May 2015 · 313pp · 92,053 words
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2014. The Martin Prosperity Institute published a regional analysis of the trend in an article written by Richard Florida on September 15, 2014 in the CityLab online magazine, titled “Singles Now Make Up More Than Half the U.S. Adult Population. Here’s Where
The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing
by Lisa Gansky · 14 Oct 2010 · 215pp · 55,212 words
equity was also a lucrative place to invest. As home prices increased, so too did the equity. But the continued recession, or “reset,” as author Richard Florida calls it, has forced us to revisit childhood assumptions. Why is home ownership desirable? Does it ensure a less stressful, happier old age? Does the
Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
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The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches From the Forgotten America
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Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason
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Data and the City
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Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
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Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends on It.
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The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World
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The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age
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