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“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

“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

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

“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

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

— Richard Florida

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

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…

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The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

— Richard Florida

Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of…

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Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

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Denser cities are smarter and more productive

— Richard Florida

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

Toronto won't topple New York or London as a financial center, nor will it dethrone Los Angeles as the international entertainment capital, but with…

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New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close…

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Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to…

— Richard Florida