Richard Florida

Richard Florida ( * November 26, 1957 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American economist and university professor.

Life

After leaving school, Florida initially studied political science at Rutgers College and then moved to the study of Urban Planning at Columbia University. He finished his studies in 1986 with the receipt of the Ph.D. and received in 2005 a position as a university professor at the University of Toronto, where he teaches at the Rotman School of Management. Previously taught Florida from 1987 to 2005 at Carnegie Mellon University.

Florida writes about concepts and theories of the "creative class" and their relationships with the urban society. To this end, Florida wrote the books The Rise of the Creative Class, Cities and the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class. Florida sees a connection between the economic strength of an urban region in relation to the presence of high-tech workers, artists, musicians and gay people. The economic strength of a region adjacent to draw capital and business to Florida especially creative people. Florida wrote its own ranking system, which differs according to criteria such as the Bohemian Index, Gay Index or diversity index and judged cities. Florida's theory of the " creative class " found its way into the city research, for example to explain the process of gentrification, and urban planning, such as plan concepts for the development of neighborhoods via stimulation of the settlement " creative " professions.

Aditya Chakrabortty makes Florida's unrealistic policy advice with responsibility to ensure that Britain's industrial sector has shrunk in the past 30 years by two thirds.

Writings

  • Reset - How do we live differently, work, and establish a new era of prosperity, campus, ISBN 3-593-39125-2
  • Who's Your City?, Basic Books, 2008, ISBN 0-465-00352-4
  • The Flight of the Creative Class. The New Global Competition for Talent, Harper Business, Harper Collins, 2005, ISBN 0-06-075691-8
  • Cities and the Creative Class, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-415-94887-8
  • The Rise of the Creative Class. And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure and Everyday Life, Basic Books, 2002, ISBN 0-465-02477-7
  • Industrializing Knowledge: University - Industry Linkages in Japan and the United States. MIT Press, 1999, ISBN 0-262-02465-9 (together with Lewis Branscomb and Fumio Kodama )
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