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  • The Rise of the Creative Class

    by Richard Florida ...
    World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new prefaceIn his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of engineers ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    The New Urban Crisis

    How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do about It

    by Richard Florida ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 3 min

    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The New Urban Crisis

    How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

    by Richard Florida ...
    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Who's Your City?

    How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

    by Richard Florida ...
    International BestsellerAll places are not created equal.In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives, one that fundamentally affects our professional and personal prospects. As well as explaining why place matters now more than ever, Who’s Your City? provides indispensable tools to help you choose the right place for you.It’s ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Great Reset

    How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

    by Richard Florida ...
    We tend to view prolonged economic downturns, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Long Depression of the late nineteenth century, in terms of the crisis and pain they cause. But history teaches us that these great crises also represent opportunities to remake our economy and society and to generate whole new eras of economic growth and prosperity. In terms of innovation, invention, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Cities and the Creative Class

    by Richard Florida ...
    In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the Creative**Class, Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the millions of people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent. ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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    The Way We Live Next

    The New Economic Map of Work, Life, and Power

    by Richard Florida, Vladislav Boutenko, Suresh Subudhi ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    A sweeping account of one of the most consequential changes in modern life: how digital technology is unbundling work and life from the old constraints of place—and how we can build better cities, communities, and lives in the world that comes next.Where should we live? Where should we work? Where should we raise our children, care for our families, find community, and build a life? For most of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

    by Harvard Business Review, David De Cremer, Richard Florida, Ethan Mollick, Nita A. Farahany ...
    Series series HBR Insights Series
    A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy—new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Flight of the Creative Class

    The New Global Competition for Talent

    by Richard Florida ...
    Research–driven and clearly written, bestselling economist Richard Florida addresses the growing alarm about the exodus of high–value jobs from the USA.Today's most valued workers are what economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class. In his bestselling The Rise of the Creative Class, Florida identified these variously skilled individuals as the source of economic revitalisation in US cities ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Housing and the New Financial Mark

    by Richard Florida ...
    This book explores how deregulation affect housing finance, and gives the broad patterns of development of institutions participating in mortgage markets. It also explores how the new housing finance system influences the cost and affordability of shelter. ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Atlas of Cities

    Edited by Paul Knox ...
    A unique, stunningly illustrated look at the origins, development, and future prospects of citiesMore than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the future of cities vary widely from region to region. ... Read more

    $54.49 CAD

  • The Creative Class Goes Global

    Edited by Charlotta Mellander, Richard Florida, Bjørn T. Asheim, Meric Gertler ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    The whole landscape of research in urban studies was revolutionized by the publication of Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002, and his subsequent book entitled The Flight of the Creative Class has helped to maintain a decade-long explosion of interest in the field. While these two books examine the creative class in the context of the United States, research has emerged which ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD