Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creativity, so if we want to increase it, we have to tap into the creativity of everyone. That's… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
“If you are a scientist or engineer, an architect or designer, a writer, artist, or musician, or if your creativity is a key factor… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
“Music, in fact, plays a central role in the creation of identity and the formation of real communities. Musical memories are some of the… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
Housing has always been a key to Great Resets. During the Great Depression and New Deal, the federal government created a new system of… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
“As the economy has become more specialized and the occupational division of labor has deepened, the Creative Class has increasingly outsourced functions that were… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
We have to acknowledge that we can't look to manufacturing or natural resources to drive growth like we have in the past. Human capital,… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
Already, new forms of short-term and long-term rental housing are popping up in some metro areas. You can take on a house or apartment… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream. — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish. — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
