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The Age of Human Potential
Video of Richard Florida’s talk at yesterday’s The Economist Ideas Economy event in NYC.
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Where Did All the “Growth” Go?
Have a gander at this mind-boggling chart put together by Mike Mandel. It shows the share of real growth of private fixed assets – stuff like machinery, factories, technological equipment, and, yep,...
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Canada’s Creative Economy
My article, “Talent, Technology and Tolerance in Canadian Regional Development,” with Kevin Stolarick and Charlotta Mellander is out in the fall issue of The Canadian Geographer. Here’s the abstract:...
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Does Corporate Nationality Matter?
The Judgment Call section of today’s Financial Times asks: Last week, Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piëch announced the company was interested in buying Alfa Romeo, the Italian brand. While at Fiat,...
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Support for the Creative Class
That’s the title of this Wall Street Journal story on a new Rockefeller Foundation Initiative to support the creative class. To assure the city remains the cultural and creative leader of the world,...
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Suburban Renewal
This is the longer, unedited version of my column in today’s Wall Street Journal. Remaking our sprawling suburbs, with their enormous footprints, shoddy construction, hastily put up infrastructure,...
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Where the World’s Brains Are
Research universities increasingly function as a key hub institution of the knowledge economy – from Stanford University’s role in Silicon Valley to MIT’s role in greater Boston’s Route 128...
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Urban Arts Gives Community Life
On a hillside in a Rio slum, artists are working to transform the community – not just to beautify it – by tapping the incredible local creative energy. The video above (via CNN International’s Urban...
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Fiat Targets the Creative Class
Fiat is looking to follow Mini’s lead when it comes to customization for consumers. “The personalization is something that customers want.” The design centers inside the dealership will be a lot like...
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America’s Most Walkable Cities
The great economic reset we are in the midst of extends even to Americans’ choices of places to live. The popularity of sprawling auto-dependent suburbs is waning. A majority of Americans – six in 10...
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