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Richard Florida

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Richard Florida

Distinguished Scholar, University of Toronto, School of Cities University Professor, University of Toronto
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Richard Florida is one of the world’s leading urbanists.

He is a writer and journalist, having penned several bestsellers, including the award- winning The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis. He co-founded CityLab, the world’s leading publication for cities and urbanism.

He is a researcher and professor, currently Visiting Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University as well as University Professor at the University of Toronto, and Kresge Foundation Visiting Senior Fellow. He previously taught at Carnegie Mellon University and has been a visiting professor at Harvard and MIT.

He is an entrepreneur, as founder of the Creative Class Group which provides strategic advice to companies, foundations, and governments worldwide, and serves on the boards of several real estate development firms, venture capital firms, and investment funds.

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Richard 's Recent Activity

Article January 18, 2018 The $5 Billion Question: Will Cities Win or Lose in the Bid for Amazon's Second Headquarters Urban experts weigh in on whether cities will win or lose from the competition to host Amazon's second headquarters. Timothy J. Bartik Angela Glover Blackwell Richard Florida Arthur C. Nelson Frederick Steiner Mark Zandi Urban Development Anchor Institutions
Article April 19, 2017 The New Urban Crisis Richard Florida writes that Donald Trump’s thinking about cities is a product of the old urban crisis of the 1960s and ‘70s - the staggeringly high rates of crime and poverty, economic and social dysfunction, and fiscal collapse that he witnessed in his native New York in the early years of his career. But, his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton is a product of the backlash against what I have come to call the New Urban Crisis of burgeoning economic inequality--the widening divides between rich and poor; the staggering unaffordability of housing in our leading cities, tech hubs, and knowledge-centers like New York, LA, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, and Washington DC. Richard Florida
Article January 25, 2016 Expert Voices 2016: Urban Policy and the Presidential Election With all eyes focused on the presidential race, now is the time to discuss the great challenges that our nation faces. The candidates have a unique opportunity to address the issues that affect the lives of their fellow Americans, but what are those issues and how should they think about them? What major urban policy issues should the candidates address? We posed this question to our Penn IUR Faculty Fellows and Scholars. In the following eleven essays, they explore the urban policies that deserve the candidates' attention. Raphael Bostic Richard Florida Mark Alan Hughes John Jackson, Jr. Laura Perna Wendell Pritchett Megan Ryerson Saskia Sassen Anchor Institutions

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