

changed the framework for discussing social and economic inequality."― New York Times "Ten years later, book seems prescient. " ideas about revitalizing cities by attracting artists and high-tech workers have influenced a generation of urban planners."― Time "Florida's book leaves the reader not just with some interesting ideas but with a new perspective for understanding our culture.Well worth reading if you're seeking a greater understanding of the sociological and economic changes taking place in our culture today.interesting, provocative, and smart."― Boston Globe "An important book for those who feel passionately about the future of the urban center. Now updated with a new preface that considers the latest developments in our changing cities, The Rise of the Creative Class is the definitive edition of this foundational book on our contemporary economy. Florida offers a detailed occupational, demographic, psychological, and economic profile of the Creative Class, examines its global impact, and explores the factors that shape "quality of place" in our changing cities and suburbs. Increasingly, Florida observes, this Creative Class determines how workplaces are organized, which companies prosper or go bankrupt, and which cities thrive, stagnate or decline. This Creative Class is made up of engineers and managers, academics and musicians, researchers, designers, entrepreneurs and lawyers, poets and programmer, whose work turns on the creation of new forms. World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century - now updated with a new preface In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace.
