Richard Florida is Visiting Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University, University Professor at the University of Toronto, Distinguished Fellow of the Kresge Foundation, and academic advisor to the BCG Institute. He is founder of the Creative Class Group and co-founder of CityLab, now Bloomberg CityLab. He is the author of the bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis. His forthcoming book, The Way We Live Next, is due out from HarperBusiness in spring 2027.
At long last it appears that the worst days of the COVID pandemic may finally be behind us. Despite early predictions of a lasting urban exodus, people are heading back. But the pandemic ...
PARIS – La rue de Rivoli, célèbre artère qui traverse le cœur de Paris, s’est construite par à-coups. Après des années de tergiversations sur l’aménagement de la ville, Napoléon Bonaparte...
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