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The rise of the creative class, revisited / Richard Florida.

By: Florida, Richard L.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Basic Books, 2012Description: xxv, 483 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780465042487 (pbk.); 9780465029938 (hbk.); 0465029930 (hbk.); 9780465029952 (e-bk. : alk. paper); 0465029957 (e-bk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Creative ability -- Economic aspects | Creative ability -- Social aspects | Work ethic -- United States | Leisure -- United States | Social classes -- United States | Creative ability in technology | Technology and civilization | Human capital | United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001 | United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-DDC classification: 305.5
Contents:
Introduction -- The transformation of everyday life -- Part One, The Creative Age -- The creative economy -- The creative class -- Part Two, Work -- The machine shop and the hair salon -- Brave new workplace -- No-collar -- Part Three, Life -- Time warp -- The experimental life -- The big morph -- Part Four, Community -- Place matters -- The geography of class -- The 3T's of economic development -- Global reach -- Quality of place -- Building the creative community -- Part Five, Contradictions -- The geography of inequality -- The inclining significance of class -- Conclusion -- Every single human being is creative.
Summary: Argues that the social changes of the past few decades have occurred by choice rather than involuntarily, citing the rise of a new creative social class that derives its identity and values from its roles as purveyors of creativity and finds its basis inthe economy.

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World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century

In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class , urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class that is reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of people -- engineers and managers, academics and musicians, researchers, designers, entrepreneurs and lawyers, poets and programmers -- whose work turns on the creation of new forms. Increasingly, Florida observes, this Creative Class determines how workplaces are organized, what companies prosper or go bankrupt, and which cities thrive.

In this updated edition, Florida further refines his occupational, demographic, psychological, and economic profile of the Creative Class. Incorporating additional research and new chapters covering the global impact of the Creative Class and exploring the factors that shape "quality of place" in our changing cities and suburbs, The Rise of the Creative Class -- Revisited is the definitive edition of this foundational book on our contemporary economy.

Substantially re-written version of: The rise of the creative class (published by Basic Books in 2002)

"10th anniversary edition"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-465) and index.

Introduction -- The transformation of everyday life -- Part One, The Creative Age -- The creative economy -- The creative class -- Part Two, Work -- The machine shop and the hair salon -- Brave new workplace -- No-collar -- Part Three, Life -- Time warp -- The experimental life -- The big morph -- Part Four, Community -- Place matters -- The geography of class -- The 3T's of economic development -- Global reach -- Quality of place -- Building the creative community -- Part Five, Contradictions -- The geography of inequality -- The inclining significance of class -- Conclusion -- Every single human being is creative.

Argues that the social changes of the past few decades have occurred by choice rather than involuntarily, citing the rise of a new creative social class that derives its identity and values from its roles as purveyors of creativity and finds its basis inthe economy.

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Richard Florida is university professor in the University of Toronto's School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, a distinguished visiting fellow at NYU's Schack Institute of Real Estate, and the cofounder and editor at large of the Atlantic 's CityLab.