Richard L Florida
2) The rise of the creative class: and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth of the world's superstar cities also generate their...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
2003, 1996.
Language
English
Description
Examines some fundamental and perhaps transforming changes occurring with jobs and work in America. As American business is going through reorganization and downsizing, many questions emerge. Where will the jobs be? Who will be working? What will the workplace be like? What skills will be needed? Program host Hodding Carter, along with economic experts Richard Florida and Jeremy Rifkin, provide the commentary as the program takes a look at companies...