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The chart below shows the 10 metros with the highest densities of creative class. The creative class density of these metros ranges from eight to almost 20 times the national norm. Source: Bureau ...
The Creative Collective NYC has announced the 2021 Creative Class, celebrating black leaders across science, fashion, beauty, social justice and more.
Richard Florida's 2002 book The Rise of the Creative Class ushered in a new policy direction for urban success. Fifteen years on, a new book by Florida, The New Urban Crisis, demonstrates that ...
Creative class jobs will make up roughly half of all projected U.S. employment growth - adding 6.8 million new jobs by 2018. The map (above) ...
Matt Yglesias, quite correctly, points out that it's poor manners to talk about salary for creative class jobs, because employers want employees they can get on the cheap. But it goes deeper than ...
The Creative Collective NYC is proud to unveil the 2025 Creative Class, a prestigious list honoring 63 Black culture-shifters ...
The so-called "creative class" didn't quite pan out as people thought it would. The term, coined by economist and social scientist Richard Florida in his 2002 book The Rise of the Creative Class ...
The following is an abridged version of the preface to The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited, out this month from Basic Books. It’s been ten years since I published – and a bit longer than ...
Mr. Florida discussed his new book, [The Rise of the Creative Class and How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life], published by Basic Books. In it, he asserts that there ...