Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

Florida, Richard

ISBN 10: 0465003524 / ISBN 13: 9780465003525

Published by Basic Books, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465003524
• ISBN 13: 9780465003525
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 23 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Richard Florida is Professor of Business and Creativity at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and the founder of the Creative Class Group, a for-profit think tank that charts trends in business, communities, and lifestyles. His national bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class was awarded the Washington Monthly's Political Book Award and Harvard Business Review's Breakthrough Idea Award. He lives in Toronto, Canada.