About this title: The national bestseller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities. The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award WinnerThe Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in our economy. Just as William Whyte's 1956 classic The Organization Man ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780465024773ISBN:0465024777
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 464 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2002-04
ISBN-13:9780465024766ISBN:0465024769
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Date Published: 2002-04
ISBN-13:9780465024766ISBN:0465024769
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Edition: Uncorrected proof with illustrations, graphs and charts.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780465024766ISBN:0465024769
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Edition: 1st Basic Bks Ppbk Publishing, 2004
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books/A Member of the Perseus Books Group, New York
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780465024773ISBN:0465024777
Description: Like New. Academic, Scholarly, Research. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 434 pp. Essentially flawless book. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages are clean; wraps have a small gouge, a fore edge corner is bumped and there is edge wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 434 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"A great idea but the 'research' was pretty unconvincing unfortunately because i really wanted to believe it. Australia is an old-school industrialised country. I have long be disappointed by the work options here in a country where there is plenty of innovation and creatives (they almost all go overseas) our top industries are manufacturing, mining and retail/services. There's very little for anyone who wants to live a creative life with creative work. Still there are pockets of resistance and people find a way to eek out a satisfying life. I just wish our urban planners took the time to read this book. Right now my neighbourhood is being ruined by massive apartment developments in a quick-rich response to population growth from developers and the government."
"This is such a great non-fiction read. if you love culture and society pick it up-- though written in 2004 (i think) it is still prevelent-- discusses how people with tats and flip flops are mow making more than those in suits."
"By creative, they don't mean artists and writers and such but also scientists and computer programmers, management, lawyers, healthcare, and anyone who is a "knowledge worker" or lives by their brains. Basically, everyone- except working class, service industry, and agriculture.
how attitudes towards work have changed; the working conditions under which creative people like to operate and thrive; the things that attract creative people to a place, why certain areas of america/ cities are growing while others are not.
"Part sociology and part business text, Florida tries to understand the rise of the "New Economy" in terms of social support systems. Interesting, but ultimately I am left wondering whether this text has any relevance 8 years on in the midst of a depression."
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