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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard L Florida |
ISBN: | 0465024769 9780465024766 0465024777 9780465024773 |
OCLC Number: | 49695187 |
Description: | xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction. 1. The transformation of everyday life -- Part One, The Creative Age: 2. The creative ethos ; 3. The creative economy ; 4. The creative class -- Part Two, Work: 5. The machine shop and the hair salon ; 6. The horizontal labor market ; 7. The no-collar workplace ; 8. Managing creativity ; 9. The time warp -- Part Three, Life and leisure: 10. The experimental life ; 11. The big morph (a rant) -- Part Four, Community: 12. The power of place ; 13. The geography of creativity ; 14. Technology, talent and tolerance ; 15. From social capital to creative capital ; 16. Building the creative community ; 17. The creative class grows up. |
Responsibility: | Richard Florida. |
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Great as an overview or for specific cities
I picked up this book as the authoritative text on the so-called "creative class." It did not disappoint. Despite being a little more academic than other quick-to-absorb-the-concept business books, it was still highly readable and packed with research data.
There are plenty of charts and lists...
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I picked up this book as the authoritative text on the so-called "creative class." It did not disappoint. Despite being a little more academic than other quick-to-absorb-the-concept business books, it was still highly readable and packed with research data.
There are plenty of charts and lists that rate certain cities in the U.S. for conditions to foster creativity, such as access to public transportation, affordable housing in the metro urban area, telecommunications infrastructure/access to public wifi and more.
You could even use this book as a guide on deciding where to move to, if you're considering changing jobs or locations.
I put it beside RenGen: Renaissance Generation - the rise of the cultural consumer and what it means to your business because they speak to the same cultural phenomenon.
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- Creative ability -- Economic aspects.
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- Leisure -- United States.
- Social classes -- United States.
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- Creative ability in technology.
- Technology and civilization.
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- Créativité -- Aspect social.
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- Loisir -- États-Unis.
- États-Unis -- Conditions économiques -- 1981-2001.
- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales -- 1980-
- Créativité.
- Innovations technologiques.
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- Human Capital.
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