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Richard Florida in crisis

Like an oiled boomerang, Richard Florida returns: “I got wrong that the creative class could magically restore our cities, become a new middle class like my father’s, and we were going to live happily forever after,” he said. “I could not have anticipated among all this urban growth and revival that there was a dark…

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Richard Florida: ‘Bollocks’

Richard Florida strongly reasserts commitment to his ideas about a ‘creative class’ after Joel Kotkin’s assessment that “the experiment appears to have failed” : As in all economic transformations, the invisible hand of the market can only take us so far. The rest is up to us. This is not a time to complain about…

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