Richard Florida

All this week on the Brian Lehrer Show we're checking in on the de Blasio administration's progress on a variety of key issues, six months into his first term. We'll talk to advocacy groups about how the mayor has lived up to his campaign promises on the environment, crime, housing, and more. Friday, we'll hear from Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Richard Florida, professor at New York University, director of the Martin Prosperity
Institute at the University of Toronto and senior editor at The Atlantic, say they have a blueprint to create jobs for an "inclusive and creative" New York. They discuss their proposals, their event at NYU this afternoon, and whether tech can really drive middle-class growth. Plus, Stringer assesses the de Blasio administration's jobs record thus far, as part of our week-long series.

Richard Florida traces the roots of why early tech pioneers chose the orange groves of California over the canyons of New York, and why he thinks tech is primed to return to cities in a big way.

Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and a senior editor at the Atlantic, is the author of The Rise of the Creative Class, 10th Anniversary Edition. As his book celebrates its tenth anniversary, Florida discusses how things have changed.

Economic crises present opportunities for social and economic resets. Author and economic development expert Richard Florida gives his view of what's ahead in his new book, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity.

What's your reset look like? What do you see in the crystal ball?  After the economy resets, where will we be living and working in 20 years? Let us know!

Even though many economists are proclaiming the "Great Recession" ending or over, the nearly 10 percent of Americans who are unemployed probably find it difficult to imagine exactly what a prosperous, post-recession America will look like. Richard Florida, author of "The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity," says that's because the crash has fundamentally altered how we feel about spending and saving. He says we're all in the process of resetting the way we work and live.

We started the conversation by asking the question: Have you remade your life because of this recession?

It's not just the economy that is at risk these days: Richard Florida, author of The Creative Class, thinks that the recession will reshape the entire demographic landscape. Which areas will benefit, which will suffer the most, and what will future America look like?

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Kurt Andersen and economic development expert Richard Florida talk about how these shaky economic times affect the arts. 

Richard Florida is the author of The Rise of the Creative Class, which places creative work first among the causes of economic growth. Florida is currently a visiting scholar at the Brookings ...

Kurt Andersen and economic development expert Richard Florida talk about how these shaky economic times affect the arts.

Richard Florida is the author of The Rise of the Creative Class, which places creative work first among the causes of economic growth. Florida is currently a visiting scholar at ...