The Great Reset, Richard Florida's latest book, takes on the fundamental ways of American life that are no longer sustainable. Namely, he believes (and we agree) that as a country, we went overboard with the push for every American to own a home.

A better balance of rental housing…

In The Great Reset, his latest book, Richard Florida takes on the American way of life that took hold after World War II, when people were indoctrinated to believe that buying bigger cars and bigger houses was going to propel American greatness.

In an interview with Smart City,…

Last week, Richard Florida explained to Smart City why he believes the economic crash will change our entire way of life in America. It is the premise of his newest book, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity. Just as suburbanization propelled…

Richard Florida is back.

His latest book, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, came out last week and yesterday he sat down with Smart City to tell us what it’s all about.

Richard believes the key to cities’ economic success is…

Tell us how you really feel, Sean.

You may remember Sean Safford's presentation on community networks at the CEOs for Cities meeting in Chicago in 2007.  Since then Sean's book, Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown, has been published, explaining why loosely networked communities are more resilient than those…

Rich Florida says it will.  Citing research from a number of sources, he makes a case  in the current Atlantic Monthly that can be summarized as follows:

+ The current crisis makes the end of a whole way of life in America. 
+ The recession will accelerate the…

Richard Florida challenges the current approach to the global financial crisis.  The problem, according to Richard, is that we are stuck in an industrial economy mindset.  We still do not take seriously the idea-driven economy that is emerging.

"The first step," Richard wrote in his November 29 Globe and…

“That word creativity is a slippery thing,” according to John Howkins, author of The Creative Economy.  I agree, and that’s one reason it was such an extraordinary opportunity for me to moderate a conversation this afternoon at the Detroit Creative Cities Summit with John, Charles Landry, author…

I spoke with Richard Florida a couple of weeks ago about his books and his ideas.  A few excerpts:

"From a public policy point of view, we had better figure out how we're going to cope with an increasingly unequal world -- the rising gap between rich and poor,…

Richard Florida insists that high gas prices are not the only thing driving the move back to cities.  In today's Globe and Mail, Richard writes that we are moving toward a new geographic order -- what geographers call "the spatial fix."  

"Suburbanization was the spatial fix…