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Loading... Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the…by Richard Florida
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Awesome book - must read!!!  waterfrontlibrary | Oct 29, 2009 |  This terrific book looks at the importance of place and cities in our lives. Where do we need to be to succeed in our careers, personal lives? What places are best suited to our personalities, wants and needs? This book strives to look at the influences people have on cities and vice versa. It's written in a compelling and accessible way with plenty of maps, charts and data and a final chapter asking pointed questions to help the reader find a best-suited city. My only complaint: it's limited to North America. With Europe, Oceania, Latin America and Asia as world leaders in their own rights, it would have been great to have that global perspective. (  ) Cecilturtle | May 30, 2009 | Great sources for considering which place suits you personally. See related websites: creativeclass.com/whos_your_city and www.bestplaces.net (  ) LindaML | Feb 13, 2009 | A must-read if you are planning to move to a new area. ( ) libq | May 14, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0465003524, Hardcover)It’s a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn’t matter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen or a beachhouse in Provence as in the office of a Silicon Valley startup. According to Richard Florida, this is wrong. Globalization is not flattening the world; in fact, place is increasingly relevant to the global economy and our individual lives. Where we live determines the jobs and careers we have access to, the people we meet, and the “mating markets” in which we participate. And everything we think we know about cities and their economic roles is up for grabs. Who’s Your City? offers the first available city rankings by life-stage, rating the best places for singles, families, and empty-nesters to reside. Florida’s insights and data provide an essential guide for the more than 40 million Americans who move each year, illuminating everything from what those choices mean for our everyday lives to how we should go about making them. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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