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Richard Florida

Author of The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure,… 1,177 copies, 8 reviews
Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live… 392 copies, 10 reviews
The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent 254 copies, 2 reviews
The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash… 131 copies, 4 reviews
Cities and the Creative Class 82 copies
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening… 70 copies, 2 reviews
The New Urban Crisis: Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality,… 10 copies
The Breakthrough Illusion: Corporate America's Failure To Move From… 9 copies
Creativity and the City: How the Creative Economy is Changing the City… 3 copies
Les ciutats creatives. Per que Barcelona es l'onzena mega-regio mundial? 3 copies
La clase creativa 2 copies
The New Urban Crisis 1 copy
The Rise of the Creative Class (and how it's transforming work… 1 copy
Quality of place and the new economy: positioning Pittsburgh to compete 1 copy

"Restructuring in Place: Japanese Investment, Production Organization, and… 1 copy

Megaregions: The Importance of Place 1 copy

How the Crash Will Reshape America (Atlantic March 2009) 1 copy, 1 review

Managing for Creativity (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition) 1 copy

The Rise of Women in the Creative Class 1 copy

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Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Foreword, some editions) 82 copies, 1 review
Insider's Guide to Careers in Urban Planning (Foreword) 4 copies

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George Mason University (School Of Public Policy)

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Professor (Martin Prosperity Institute ∙ Rotman School Of Management ∙ University Of Toronto)

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