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 ...

Scott Timberg believes America’s creative class is being destroyed by what he calls today’s “winner-take-all” economy. Backing his argument with an avalanche of empirical evidence from across the ...

18The Long Plot to Escape From Work 19The Artist Isn’t Dead View All I studied to be a painter in college and had what I now know is a pretty common experience. My fellow students and I produced ...

Richard Florida, always a fan of cities including Seattle, seems to be having some second thoughts. The 2002 publication of his book, “The Rise of the Creative Class,” turned a professor into as much ...

Over the past few years, Richard Florida has had some explaining to do. Through books and magazine cover stories, pricey speeches and consultations, the TED-talking University of Toronto professor ...

Former Los Angeles Times arts reporter and Salon contributor Scott Timberg profiles a sector under assault in “Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class,” an expansive, provocative and at times ...

Few purveyors of big ideas have as much riding on a single notion or catch phrase as Richard Florida does with the “creative class.” Florida’s idea of a group of highly mobile, Mac-toting ...

In his Condition of the State, then-Governor Tom Vilsack declared that 2004 would be "The Year of the Arts, Culture and Recreation in Iowa." He continued, "Studies show that creativity spurs economic ...

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 ...