Creative Power
This article from PM magazine of the International City/County Management Association (IMCA) gives a local government viewpoint on the importance of arts and creativity to a local economy. Here are a couple of quotes: Nationally, the nonprofit arts and culture industry generates $166.2 billion in economic activity annually, which is a 24 [...]
Geography of Online Communities
Map via XKDC (h/t: Charlotta Mellander). Thoughts?
Cowen on Gladwell
The book is getting snarky reviews but if it were by an unknown, rather than by the famous Malcolm Gladwell, many people would be saying how interesting it is. The main point, in economic language, is that human talent is heterogeneous and that the talent of a particular person must mesh with the capital structure [...]
Fat Head
Google CEO Eric Schmidt counters the notion of the long tail (via Whimsley): although the tail is very interesting and we enable it, the vast majority of the revenue remains in the head. And this a lesson that businesses have to learn. While you can have a long tail strategy, you better have a head, because [...]
Analyze This
The relationship between our personalities and our choice of locations is one of the hottest topics for understanding cities and urban areas. A new study in Psychological Science shows the connection between psychological “temperament” and migration. Not a psychology expert myself, I consulted with Cambridge University psychologist, Jason Rentfrow co-author of a path-breaking [...]
Design & Business Crossroads
While of great interest today, the discussion of design in business is hardly a new phenomenon. In a 1965 speech at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Hugh DuPree, one of a troika of DuPrees who presided over the company for half a century, described how his family went about connecting business with design. In the [...]
Greenest University Initiative
As U.S. cities compete for the title of “Greenest” and vie to attract green industry, Portland State University is launching an initiative to use the city as a laboratory for sustainability studies. Portland was recently named America’s most sustainable city for the second year by SustainLane. PSU hired noted Dutch urbanist Wim Wiewel as its [...]
Japan and United States 20 Years Apart
Can we find our way into the future without loosing a generation?
“SF Doesn’t Need Us… but Detroit Does.”
The latest issue of Dwell Magazine looks at one of America’s first (and often considered the most successful) urban renewal projects. Detroit’s Lafayette Park, now undergoing a subtle transformation as a new wave of residents including Keira Alexandra and Toby Barlow settle in, remix the past, and make the place their own. Given the uncertainty looming with the [...]
The Visible Hand, U.S. Entrepreneurship, and Education
As we sit and watch the crisis in global capitalism, it’s obvious that governments are sticking their hands deep into the global economy and various national economies. The U.S. government is taking stakes in major financial and insurance firms, becoming partners (in all likelihood) with Detroit, planning major stimulus packages, bailing out over-leveraged homeowners, [...]
In the last 5 years, Richard Florida has penned two national bestsellers, The Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class. His books before that, especially The Breakthrough Illusion and Beyond Mass Production, paved the way for his provocative looks at how creativity is revolutionizing the global economy.
Florida has authored pieces for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Economist, The Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Chronicle for Higher Education, U.S. News and World Report and more. His next book, a look at the way that people choose the places they live and how that affects everything from their real estate to their families, is due out in 2008.
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