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  • The Great Reset

    How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work

    by Richard Florida ...
    From Richard Florida, author of the bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City?, comes a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008–09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to “reset.” In doing so, he paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography will look like—of how we will work and live—in the future.This economic crisis doesn’t represent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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 ...
    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Who's Your City?

    How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

    by Richard Florida ...
    In the age of globalization, some claim that where you live doesn't't matter: Alaska, Idaho, and Alabama are interchangeable. The world is, after all, flat.Not so fast. Place, argues the great urbanist Richard Florida, is not only important, it's more important than ever. In fact, choosing a place to live is as important to your happiness as choosing a spouse or career. And some regions, recent ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

    by Harvard Business Review, David De Cremer, Richard Florida, Ethan Mollick, Nita A. Farahany ...
    Series series HBR Insights Series
    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 technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of the Creative Class

    by Richard Florida ...
    World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new prefaceIn his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of engineers ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Collaborative Cities

    Mapping Solutions to Wicked Problems

    by Stephen Goldsmith, Kate Markin Coleman ...
    Dynamic problems require dynamic collaboration and technology.Our communities today face difficult issues—such as climate change, access to health care, and homelessness—which are tangled, complicated, and constantly evolving. Coined “wicked problems” more than 40 years ago by the University of California’s professors Horst Rittel and C. West Churchman, these issues exceed the capacity of any one ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Flight of the Creative Class

    The New Global Competition for Talent

    by Richard Florida ...
    Research–driven and clearly written, bestselling economist Richard Florida addresses the growing alarm about the exodus of high–value jobs from the USA.Today's most valued workers are what economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class. In his bestselling The Rise of the Creative Class, Florida identified these variously skilled individuals as the source of economic revitalisation in US cities ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Atlas of Cities

    Edited by Paul Knox ...
    A unique, stunningly illustrated look at the origins, development, and future prospects of citiesMore than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the future of cities vary widely from region to region. ... Read more

    $35.69 USD

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    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 ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 3 min

    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Cities and the Creative Class

    by Richard Florida ...
    In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the Creative**Class, Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the millions of people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Creative Class Goes Global

    Edited by Charlotta Mellander, Richard Florida, Bjørn T. Asheim, Meric Gertler ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    The whole landscape of research in urban studies was revolutionized by the publication of Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002, and his subsequent book entitled The Flight of the Creative Class has helped to maintain a decade-long explosion of interest in the field. While these two books examine the creative class in the context of the United States, research has emerged which ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur

    How the Growth of Cities and the Sharing Economy Are Driving a New Breed of Innovators

    by Boyd Cohen, Pablo Muñoz ...
    Combining emerging trends in collaboration, democratization, and urbanization, this book examines the emergence of entrepreneurship and innovation as a primarily urban phenomenon, explains why urban environments are rapidly attracting global innovators across three distinct forms of "urbanpreneurship," and lights the path forward for entrepreneurs, innovators, and city governments.The world is ... Read more

    $46.99 USD