#The rise of the creative class amazon series#

Florida delves into the roles played by technology, race, and poverty in perpetuating and exacerbating income inequality and the pervasive influence of class throughout every aspect of society. Five completely new chapters cover the global effects of the Creative Class and explore the integral features and factors that shape “quality of place” in our rapidly changing cities and suburbs.

In late 2011, the social media site LinkedIn reported that the word most used by its members to describe themselves was “Creative.” In this newly revised and expanded edition of his now classic book, Florida has brought all of its statistics up to date (and provided a host of new ones) further refined his occupational, demographic, psychological, and economic profile of the Creative Class incorporated a decade’s worth of his own and his colleagues’ quantitative and qualitative research and addressed his major critics.

#The rise of the creative class amazon series#

Ten years ago, Richard Florida published a path-breaking book about the forces that were reshaping our economy, our geography, our work, and our whole way of life. Weaving story-telling with reams of original research, he traced a fundamental theme through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity. In the decade since, we have endured a series of world shattering events-from the collapse of the tech bubble to 9/11 to the economic meltdown of 2008-any one of which might have been sufficient to derail the forces he described Instead, the drive towards creativity as only intensified, both in the US and across the globe.