MORE ON Density: Richard Florida: The Power of Density Richard Florida: Human Capital Density Richard Florida: The Density of Smart People The map below shows the density of the creative class across ...

For better or worse, many American cities are defined largely by their local economy. Places like Las Vegas and Miami are major international tourist hubs, while Houston is a global energy leader, and ...

I was lucky enough to take my first creative writing class in high school, and I was instantly hooked. I went on to take classes in college, and then even after I graduated. So, if you're about to ...

Ten years ago, an obscure professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh wrote a book called “The Rise of the Creative Class.” Although Richard Florida’s theory was criticized, misunderstood ...

When I was in college and first became politically aware, so to speak, was in the '80s when Ronald Reagan was president. Many people from that era remember that perhaps the principal economic theory ...

When first published in 2002, The Rise of the Creative Class quickly established its author, Richard Florida, as an urban policy and business management guru. The Rise of the Creative Class heralded ...

Many thanks to the brilliant economic development guru Richard Florida for shining the spotlight on the rise of the Creative Class. More than simply white collar, service sector, technology or ...

Richard Florida may be the most widely read author on the subject of cities these days, and probably has been since the turn of the millennium. He first became known for cheerleading the idea that if ...

The following post is an abridged excerpt from my new book, The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited. When I first wrote Rise of the Creative Class, I looked at the creative class as one whole unit.

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Joel Kotkin says that I’ve turned my back on the creative class. My response? Bollocks. By Richard Florida. Oli Scarff/Getty Joel Kotkin is at it again.

Journalists take it for granted that they can reach professors on the phone for expert opinions. Universities even publish directories to make faculty members accessible to the media. But you can’t ...