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 ...

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 ...

MORE ON Job Projection: Richard Florida: Where Service Jobs Will Be Richard Florida: Where the Blue-Collar Jobs Will Be Richard Florida: Where the Jobs Will Be In my last post, I mapped the projected ...

Richard Florida, a well known consultant planner has a revised edition of his famous book titled “The Rise of the Creative Class.” Florida visited Wilkes-Barre quite a few years ago and provided ...

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 ...

Gary, Ind.: Waiting for a comeback. That’s all well and good, I thought, but what about all the people who already live in these cities? Though many of these cities have hemorrhaged population in the ...

Urban policy mavens Joel Kotkin and Richard Florida have been mixing it up at the Daily Beast over the key to urban success and growth. Florida is known for the thesis that, very roughly, appealing to ...

Yesterday I wrote how a platform like the Kindle might act as a stimulus to the wider, creative economy. The question in my mind is this. Is the creative economy a bit of hocous pocus or is it ...

For an interactive map based on this data compiled by the ERS, click here. The map shows the number and percentage of creative class and arts workers in each U.S. county. [imgcontainer] ...

Someday, there will be a snappy acronym for the period we’re living though, but right now — three years after the crash of 2008 — American life is a blurry, scratched-out page that’s hard to read.