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World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a ne...
Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the key economic growth asset - and argues that, i...
The New Global Competition for Talent
Research–driven and clearly written, bestselling economist Richard Florida addresses the growing alarm about the exodus of high–value jobs from th...
Revised and Expanded
A provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Initially published in 2002, The Rise of the Creative Cl...
And how It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
Many writers have commented on the massive social changes of the past few decades, but most of them have treated these shifts as something imposed on ...
How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life (Large Print 16pt)
In the age of globalization, some claim that where you live doesn't matter: Alaska, Idaho, and Alabama are interchangeable. The world is, after all, f...
How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
International Bestseller All places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a cru...
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Revealing a provocative way to think about why we live as we do today and where we might be headed, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that ...
How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work
We've weathered tough times before. History teaches us that periods of "creative destruction," like the Great Depression of the 1930s, also present op...
How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity
We tend to view prolonged economic downturns, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Long Depression of the late nineteenth century, in ter...
How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-crash Prosperity
"From the author of the bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class, a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008-09 not as a crisis but as an oppor...
How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all i...
For the first time, the United States is in danger of losing its most crucial economic advantage--its status as the world's greatest talent magnet, ar...
Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality, and What We Can Do About It
Never before have our cities been as important as they are now. The drivers of innovation and growth, they are essential to the prosperity of nations....
The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S.
Drawing on five years of research that included field studies of dozens of factories, hundreds of personal interviews, and comprehensive surveys of in...
Examines the failure of corporate America to move from scientific breakthroughs and start-up technologies into mass production. The authors identify t...
How the Creative Economy Is Making Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place. Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy—new techn...
How the Creative Economy is Making where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
"Our cities drive innovation and growth, but they also propel us into housing crises and give rise to ever-greater inequality, as the super-rich displ...
This book explores how deregulation affect housing finance, and gives the broad patterns of development of institutions participating in mortgage mark...