Throughout its three-week run, Innovative Sweden will highlight groundbreaking products from promising Swedish startups in the fields of IT and Communications, Clean Technology, Gaming and Life Sciences. The event also features an extensive program of seminars, discussion panels, keynotes and business exchanges—the ideal forum for entrepreneurs, business advisors, students, researchers and innovation experts to connect, learn and share knowledge.

H3. A series of events are taking place beginning January 23rd until February 10th.

For more information on the events and to register to attend, visit the MaRS Discovery District Events site.

All are welcome to attend a public seminar sponsored by Cities Centre’s Community Development Collaborative Program.

No registration or RSVP is required.

How can technology, social media, dance all be used to engage and empower youths across Canada? Unity Charity, in partnership with Blue Print for Life, is creating a new program that uses electronic, phone and physical ex-changes with youths to make positive community impact. This program connects young people from hip hop clubs in Toronto to the Arctic dance scenes in Nunavut/Nunavik. Michael Prosserman will share insights about this innovative project.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 5:30 p.m.
Physical Geography Building, 45 St. George Street, Room 101

ASX’s 9th Annual ‘Expanding Canada’s Frontiers’ Symposium “Space 2.0: What’s Next?”

January 20th, 2012
7-10pm

Convocation Hall
31 King’s College Circle
Toronto, Ontario

Featuring:

• Dr. Marc Millis, NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics
• Dr. Nicole Buckley, CSA Chief Scientist of the ISS and Life Sciences
• Mr. Thomas A. Olson, Founding Member, Exodus Consulting Group

The MPI is now accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship here at the Institute. The full position description can be viewed here.

The MPI Working Paper Series provides a forum where the Martin Prosperity Institute and its affiliates will post working papers and gather feedback and editorial comments regarding content, structure, and other related matters in an online, interactive format.

By opening up the academic review and editing process, the author(s) are able to receive spontaneous and immediate feedback on their working paper from a number of contributors in a short amount of time, as compared to the traditional method of offline, singular colleague review.

This innovative approach enables an author to receive multiple perspectives and comments from a variety of colleagues, which ideally, will build on one another’s insights and perspectives quickly. This multitude of perspectives and speed in feedback enables the author to further develop the working paper based on these robust editorial comments and insights, and enables the author to promptly submit the work to a journal of choice.

Please visit our blog for more announcements and research updates.

ASX’s 9th Annual ‘Expanding Canada’s Frontiers’ Symposium “Space 2.0: What’s Next?”

January 20th, 2012
7-10pm

Convocation Hall
31 King’s College Circle
Toronto, Ontario

Featuring:

• Dr. Marc Millis, NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics
• Dr. Nicole Buckley, CSA Chief Scientist of the ISS and Life Sciences
• Mr. Thomas A. Olson, Founding Member, Exodus Consulting Group

All are welcome to attend a public seminar sponsored by Cities Centre’s Community Development Collaborative Program.

No registration or RSVP is required.

How can technology, social media, dance all be used to engage and empower youths across Canada? Unity Charity, in partnership with Blue Print for Life, is creating a new program that uses electronic, phone and physical ex-changes with youths to make positive community impact. This program connects young people from hip hop clubs in Toronto to the Arctic dance scenes in Nunavut/Nunavik. Michael Prosserman will share insights about this innovative project.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 5:30 p.m.
Physical Geography Building, 45 St. George Street, Room 101

Throughout its three-week run, Innovative Sweden will highlight groundbreaking products from promising Swedish startups in the fields of IT and Communications, Clean Technology, Gaming and Life Sciences. The event also features an extensive program of seminars, discussion panels, keynotes and business exchanges—the ideal forum for entrepreneurs, business advisors, students, researchers and innovation experts to connect, learn and share knowledge.

H3. A series of events are taking place beginning January 23rd until February 10th.

For more information on the events and to register to attend, visit the MaRS Discovery District Events site.

Bloomberg Businessweek
“How people cope with disruptive change in the job market is often a factor of age, skills, or even location. Kevin Stolarick, research director at the Rotman School’s Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, notes that port cities like Boston, San Francisco, and Singapore are often hubs of innovation because they get a constant flow of immigrants and the new ideas they bring with them.’

Business Insider
“Some will make the case for renewable energy, or science and technology, or even fresh water, but I take a longer view. Our most important resource is us – or to be more precise, the creative potential that is in every human being.”

Las Vegas Weekly
“Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and intellectual entrepreneur extraordinaire, argues that if cities are to be prosperous, they must embrace the “three Ts”: talent, technology and tolerance. This isn’t a groundbreaking argument, but he adds a seductive twist: To capture these three Ts, we must also embrace bohemianism.”

bigthink.com
“The Year of the Dragon – traditionally the year of big, innovative ideas and breakthrough projects – might just be the year that China’s creative class enters the global spotlight.”

Santa Cruz Sentinel
“The Atlantic rates Santa Cruz County as the second most healthy metropolitan area in the nation.
If Santa Cruz had a smaller percentage of smokers, Santa Cruz could have beaten San Jose for the No. 1 spot. The rankings were calculated by Richard Florida, The Atlantic columnist and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, based on the level of smoking and obesity in 315 regions using data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

Miami Herald
“Last week, Israelis had one more reason to be proud of themselves — one of their cities was singled out for a rare honor. The Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail selected the “most creative cities” of the world. Leaning on the Global Creativity Index, devised at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the newspaper looked at the three T’s (technology, talent and tolerance) which have made cities shine.”

The Sacramento Bee
“California’s economy may be suffering and the state budget may be in disarray, but when it comes to healthy lifestyles, Californians — or at least coastal Californians — are leading the nation, according to The Atlantic magazine.”

CTV
“The 580,000 Ontarians still looking for work as 2011 drew to a close might have a tough time — particularly if they’re seeking jobs in the manufacturing sector.”

The Globe and Mail
“Innovation can happen anywhere. It shouldn’t be solely entrusted to Cupertino or Mountain View nor should it be limited to self-styled visionaries in New Balance sneakers. But it does seem to happen in clusters. Why Silicon Valley? Why Waterloo? Because creativity is cultural. For the better part of a decade, the Martin Prosperity Institute at U of T’s Rotman School of Management has been studying the complex web of factors that encourage and sustain innovation in regions around the world.”

Williamsport Sun-Gazette
“You better watch out. You better not pout, better not cry. I’m telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town – and may be staying as a permanent resident.”

CBS St. Louis
“The home of the Little League World Series, Williamsport Pennsylvania, is the U.S. city most likely to land Santa Claus’s workshop, should St. Nick ever decide to leave the North Pole.”

Montreal Gazette
“If Santa is looking to move away from his home in the North Pole, a Toronto economic prosperity think-tank has made a list of North American cities to suit his needs. After checking the list at least twice, first place went to Guelph, Ont., about 93 kilometres west of Toronto.”

London Free Press
“London would be the fourth most likely destination for Santa to move should he need to leave the cool climes of the North Pole, says a study by the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.”

Wall Street Journal
“Santa Claus— who will again this year handwrite a letter full of curlicues to my kids to prove his existence—famously lives and works at the North Pole. But what if he wants a change of scenery? Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management have some suggestions: The school’s Martin Prosperity Institute set out to determine the 10 best alternative locations in North America for Santa’s home base.”

Guelph Mercury
“The Martin Prosperity Institute, a think-tank at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, released a report Thursday stating that according to the optics of Santa’s favourite things — milk and cookies, toys, department stores and the number of postal workers and couriers in town to deliver his huge volume of mail — Guelph has the goods to give Santa the good life.”

itbusiness.ca
“More competent managers, a larger IT talent pool, more start-up funding, and greater collaboration are needed to boost Toronto’s tech posture, according to speakers and attendees of Technicity 2011.”

The Toronto Star
“It’s been a long time coming — hurtfully long — but justice has finally been delivered in a 28-year pay equity dispute at Canada Post. Ironically, when the good news came, it was unexpectedly quick. The Supreme Court of Canada took a mere 20 minutes after the close of oral arguments last week to vindicate thousands of clerical workers who had been treated unfairly. The right thing to do was just that obvious.”

Financial Times
“Cities are machines for innovation, incubators of ideas born of necessity as people from different places and social classes rub up against each other, creating a space for ideas and inventions. Look at Rome in the first century, Baghdad 1,000 years later, London in the 19th century or New York in the 20th; the city stands out as an engine of progress and modernity.”

The Guardian
“In the past 30 years, the UK’s manufacturing sector has shrunk by two-thirds, the greatest de-industrialisation of any major nation. It was done in the name of economic modernisation – but what has replaced it?”

National Post
“Canada has long been termed a nation of regions — a country that can be partitioned not just geographically, but also culturally, into the west, the east, central Canada, and Quebec.”

The Globe and Mail
“Another big Rotman idol is Richard Florida, the ‘creative class’ guru and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at Rotman. He’s readily available to students, teaching two MBA courses — Prosperity and Competitiveness and Creative Regional Strategies.”

Government of Ontario News
“Premier Dalton McGuinty set the tone for Ontario’s 40th parliament at a visit today to the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management expansion project that’s creating jobs today and for the future.”

Calgary Herald
“You can blame Richard Florida. After moving from the US to Canada several years ago, the famed public academic and originator of the Bohemian Index, said he was pleasantly surprised at the number of trick-or-treaters in his urban Toronto neighbourhood.”

London Free Press
“Speaking of competitive connections — according to Richard Florida, nations that implement transportation policies that ease the flow of labour, trade and ideas within mega-regions will thrive, and those that are slow to respond will stagnate or …”

The Globe and Mail
“The University of Toronto has joined a team of international schools to make a bid to build a $450-million urban sciences campus in Brooklyn, N.Y.”

The Associated Press
“Yet another symptom of the economic downturn: Americans aren’t moving. Young adults are staying put, often with their parents. Older people aren’t able to retire to beachfront or lakeside homes.”

Helsinki Times
“Finland is a global leader in the number of researchers per capita, R&D investment and innovation, according to the Global Creativity Index published by the Martin Prosperity Institute.”

BlogTO
“The Martin Prosperity Institute is back at it with another map project that focuses on Toronto’s cultural scene. Building on previous work done on the cost of music rehearsal space in Toronto, this latest effort charts the relationship between monthly rehearsal spaces and live music venues. Although the results this little cartographic exercise might not be particularly surprising — centrally located studios are closer to live venues and more expensive to rent — it’s intriguing, nevertheless, to get a macro look at Toronto’s music scene.”

CNN

The Next Silicon Valley
“By all objective metrics Finland could emerge as a ‘next Silicon Valley’ – a vibrant European spawning ground for tech-driven, innovative, VC backed startups.”

The Toronto Star
“You may not have noticed any cultural clusters on our streets, but a revealing new report called ‘From the Ground Up’ identifies these clusters as the key to Toronto’s growth and prosperity. Think of them as the peanut butter deliciously dripping across a map of the city.”

The Toronto Star
“Now that we’re talking about polls and maps and such (see previous post), it’s probably worth posting some cool maps from the the Martin Prosperity Institute, in a report on Toronto’s Cultural Sector. I came across them yesterday on this blog, which says the report is due to be considered this week at Toronto City Hall. And I thought it might be interesting to compare culture to politics, map-wise.”

BlogTO
“A new report on the state of Toronto’s cultural sector prepared by the Martin Prosperity Institute and a variety of other groups including OCAD U, E.R.A. Architects and Wavelength/Music Gallery will be considered by the City of Toronto’s economic development committee this Friday (October 7th). Titled ‘From the Ground Up: Growing Toronto’s Cultural Sector’, a major component of the report involves the identification of cultural clusters within this city.”

Post Media News
“Canada is the top global destination for business, according to a new Forbes ranking that touts this country’s economic resilience as much of the world battles major financial woes.”

Ottawa Citizen
“Ottawa should shape its destiny as a great city and capital by becoming the centrepiece of international gatherings where the world comes to debate, argue, learn and find solutions to global problems, former UN ambassador Stephen Lewis said on Tuesday.”

The Globe and Mail
“Who earns more, a chef with a college diploma or one with a university degree?
New research has shed light on the impact of higher education on wages in certain jobs. The study this week by the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity looks at how returns to education, particularly among university and college grads, vary.”

CityNews
“More than 18 per cent of people with bachelor degrees don’t make the country’s median income of $37,002, the Globe and Mail finds. In a recent study, the newspaper found that while a university degree can increase one’s earning potential, nearly one in five university graduates will still end up at the lower end of the pay scale.”

The Dylan Ratigan Show
“The Atlantic’s Richard Florida and panel debate whether renting a home is a better option during a time of national economic distress.”

New York Times
“The courtyard of the nightclub Picknick was packed with partygoers dancing, shouting over the music and snapping photographs of one another, by all appearances just another night in this dilettante party capital. But appearances, on this recent Saturday night, were very much deceiving.”

CP24’s Stephen LeDrew interviews four Greater Toronto Area mayors, while MPI Research Director Kevin Stolarick contributes to the discussion. (Sept 22 Mayors of the GTA-Part 1)

Torontoist
“In a strongly worded open letter to Toronto city councillors, a long list of urban thinkers are condemning Rob Ford’s recent attempt to revamp long-planned development projects for the Port Lands. The letter was written by Eric Miller (director of the Cities Centre at U of T), Paul Bedford (former chief planner for Toronto), Richard Sommer (dean of U of T’s architecture school), and Richard Florida (director of the Martin Prosperity Institute).”

National Post
“The Ford administration may slow down a push to seize control of a section of waterfront revitalization, as opposition to charting a new course for the derelict Port Lands mounts.”

The Toronto Star
“Cities are ‘creatures of the province.’ Luckily, the Constitution didn’t say ‘children.’ If it did, by now Family Services would have moved in and taken them away from the provinces. Not so much for mistreatment, but for neglect. During this provincial election campaign and in the administration that follows, the ‘creatures’ deserve some attention.”

Ottawa Citizen
“For the first time in its history, the National Capital Commission is going on the road this fall to ask Canadians across the country about their vision for the national capital.”

The Globe and Mail
“But next week, after three packed showings of Urbanized, The Atlantic magazine will launch a new website,TheAtlanticCities.com, a hub for all things urban, centred on the work of Toronto-based thinker Richard Florida.”

The Globe and Mail
“Offering tax credits in exchange for job creation can be ‘a very expensive way to create only a few jobs,’ said James Milway, executive director of the Martin Prosperity Institute.”

BBC

“As global economic confusion continues, maybe it is time to rethink the way the world works. Peter Day hears from three influential business gurus with change-making suggestions.”

Huffington Post Canada
“The Ontario government’s five-year implementation update on its Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe shows that it is having the intended effect. The absence of this Growth Plan, they say, would result in worse gridlock, sprawl, a significant loss of greenspace, lower economic productivity and poorer quality of life.”

Financial Times

USA Today
“Not long ago Americans were abandoning their cities. Now many of the nation’s urban areas are booming with new restaurants, parks and condos. Richard Florida , who studies urban trends, says much has changed in the last decade.”

MSNBC
“…But about 45 percent of jobs are concentrated in the low-wage, low-skill service parts of the economy, including janitors, home health care, and retail sales and clerks, calculates Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute.”

Atlanta Journal Constitution
“What sort of person do cities and metro areas most want to attract? If you described yourself, you were right – as long as you’re between 25 and 35ish and hold at least a bachelor’s degree. Preferably in a technology field.”

National Post
“If this project indicates the evolution of the east-end neighbourhood, it may also signify another evolution, one in which gentrification is no longer a dirty word.‘This is how neighbourhoods rejuvenate,’ said James Milway, executive director at the Martin Prosperity Institute.”

WCNC

CNN
Terry Savage and Richard Florida discuss national employment and wage trends with Tom Foreman (video).

National Post
“While immigration to Toronto has fallen off somewhat, roughly 40% to 50% of Canada’s approximately 250,000 immigrants per year still end up in the Greater Toronto Area, according to Kevin Stolarick, research director at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.”

Ottawa Citizen
“Furthermore, Florida says home ownership tends to cut into the mobility of labour. That means people turn down good, creative jobs because they don’t want to leave their house.”

Business News Network

Financial Times

Maritime Morning
Kevin Stolarick of the Rotman School’s Martin Prosperity Institute was a guest on Maritime Morning, which is heard on radio stations in Halifax, Moncton and Saint John on July 11. He discussed how cities and regions can attract “cool jobs.” The interview was based on online discussion Stolarick did for GlobeandMail.com last week.

Financial Times

MPI Research Director Kevin Stolarick discusses what smart cities need to attract smart people. This article includes the transcript from the online chat.

CityNews
“The Martin Prosperity Institute found that lack of employment among the disabled costs the province’s economy $4.8 billion a year.”

The Fiscal Times
MPI Research Director Kevin Stolarick weighs in on the best cities to start a small business.

London Free Press
“The Martin Prosperity Institute, a self-described think tank at the University of Toronto, published the ranking of 144 Canadian cities in honour of Canada Day, with Moncton, NB. topping the list.”

Hamilton Spectator

The New Yorker
In the United States right now, after a long run of “urban crisis” (punctuated by periodic hopeful reports of revitalization), cities are viewed positively again. An article in The New Yorker on June 27 examines a number of recent books on cities, including Prof. Richard Florida’s The Great Reset.

MPI Research Director Kevin Stolarick discusses how communities can lure top talent.

Killeen Daily Herald

Niagara Gazette
Niagara Falls needs to continue to tap into what author and economist Richard Florida calls the “Creative Class.”

CNN

Wired
“Livable cities draw creative people, and creative people spawn jobs. Some places you’d never expect—small cities not dominated by a university—are learning how to lure knowledge workers, entrepreneurs, and other imaginative types at levels that track or even exceed the US average (30 percent of workers). Here are some surprising destinations from the data of the Martin Prosperity Institute, directed by Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class.”

Minnesota Public Radio

The Seattle Times
“According to the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, just the core cities of its metropolitan areas account for 40 percent of gross domestic product. Some 74 percent of all new jobs created over the past year have been in metro areas. Metros are the driving force of the American economy, too. But Canada, with universal health care, abundant transit, more people working and a healthier population arguably has lower carrying costs for its urbanized population.”

StLToday.com
Columbia, Mo., has come in 11th in a ranking of “America’s Top 25 Cities for Recent College Graduates,” as determined by Richard Florida, senior editor at The Atlantic magazine, and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto.

Fast Company
Today’s infographic isn’t going to win any beauty contests, but it hits like a punch in the face, said an article posted to FastCoDesign.com on May 19. Using the Southern Poverty Law Center’s voluminous database of hate groups, Zara Matheson of the Martin Prosperity Institute simply graphed them by state and adjusted for population.

National Post

Kevin Stolarick, research director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, discussed the recent report, ‘Who cares about 15 million voters?’, in a segment on CTV News Channel on April 16.

The Toronto Star

The Toronto Star

BlogTO
“The under-representation of cities in federal politics — both in terms of campaign promises and the relative influence they’re afforded within the electoral system — might be old news to the average urbanite, but a new report from the Martin Prosperity Institute, aptly titled ‘Who Cares About 15 Million Urban Voters?’ highlights just how problematic this situation has become.”

Globe and Mail
“Cities tend to be occupied more by young people and by immigrants, both of whom don’t vote as much,” said Kevin Stolarick, research director at the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute and one of the authors of Who Cares About 15 Million Votes, a study on the role cities play in driving Canada’s economy

The Toronto Star
“The University of Toronto, along with participating universities from across Canada, recently released “Who Cares about 15 Million Urban Voters?” This report shows that 15.3 million voters, $17.5 billion in personal income, $910 billion in GDP, and more than 74 per cent of all new jobs created in the past year are in Canada’s metropolitan regions.”

Abilene Reporter-News

The Huffington Post
“The following graphs show the similarity of Richard Florida’s creative class …”

Fast Company

Financial Times

WNED

New York Times
“The idea that cities can shrink to survive is all the rage in urban planning circles today. The notion is that older cities can become better, more self-sufficient places by making do with less and bringing their level of infrastructure and housing into line with their smaller populations”

New York Daily News

kauffman.org
In this episode, Paul talks with Richard Florida, delving into themes Florida discusses in his new book, The Great Reset. They talked about the cultural, economic and geographic factors influencing innovative time periods and places. They also wrestled with topics like: “Should cities be allowed to fail?” and “Why are college towns such hotbeds of innovation?”

New York Times
“More people are ‘living like a congressman,’ said Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and author of ‘The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity’.”

TVO
“It used to be that owning a home was the North American dream. But is it a good dream? The financial crisis showed us that maybe everyone shouldn’t own a home. But what would that do to the economy?”

CBC
“Kevin Stolarick, a statistician with the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute who helped contribute to Florida’s landmark book The Rise of the Creative Class, said that while the concept has helped artists, decision makers are increasingly looking at the arts as just dollars and cents.”

NPR
“Professor Richard Florida, director of the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute, has released his Trick or Treat Index for 2010. It’s a kind of Lonely Planet guide for hobgoblins. He gives us his top-five list of the best U.S. cities for Halloween trick-or-treating.”

Toronto Star
“Even while he was ranking the best U.S. cities to trick-or-treat in, Richard Florida was thinking how ‘very special’ Toronto is, compared with them.”

The Globe and Mail

In this Huffington Post article, “Tenure is for Wimps: An Untenured Professor (re)Contemplates Life”, Jason Schmitt cites Professor Kevin Stolarick’s April 2010 talk on higher education’s role in city building.

The Coalition for Action on Innovation in Canada (CAIC) has released “An Action Plan for Prosperity“. MPI Research Director Kevin Stolarick and Executive Director James Milway are members of CAIC and contributed to the report.

The Wall Street Journal
Smart ‘edge cities’ are turning their shuttered malls and aging office parks into hip hotspots

The Wall Street Journal
“U.S. innovation is most concentrated on the coasts, with the highest density on the West Coast, according to urban theorist Richard Florida.”

In February 2009, Roger Martin and Richard Florida released Ontario in the Creative Age, a study of the changing composition of Ontario’s economy that provided recommendations on how the province can remain prosperous and globally competitive.

As part of the Cities Centre’s Toronto 2010 Election Series we’ve prepared Toronto in the Creative Age, a more modest research brief that aims to do something similar for the city of Toronto. Its release is accompanied by an Insight on the topic.

CBC Metro Morning

Chronogram Magazine
“The urban studies theorist Richard Florida isn’t from the city. Born to a working-class family in New Jersey, he earned his PhD from Columbia University, taught for years at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, and is currently a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, said an article posted to the website of Chronogram Magazine on August 27.”

Toronto Star

Fast Company

The Herald Sun

Torontoist
A map of Toronto, created by research associates at Richard Florida’s Martin Prosperity Institute, and released last week as part of a series of mayoral election–themed research briefs—depicts a city divided not by political affiliation (as the electoral colour scheme indicates), but by occupation and access to public transit.

National Post
“The Great Reset is a recent book by author and ‘thought leader’ Richard Florida that came about after he was commissioned to write a cover story for Atlantic magazine on ‘How the Crash is Reshaping America’ The article appeared in March 2009, the very month the rally started to gain steam.”

Ottawa Citizen

Financial Times

Global National
James Milway, executive director of the Rotman School’s Martin Prosperity Institute, commented on the implementation of the GST on July 1 in a report on Global National on June 30.

Globe and Mail
“The database also confirms earlier research by Richard Florida, an American urban studies theorist who is head of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management. Prof. Florida correlates high concentrations of high-tech workers, artists, lesbians and gay men with a higher level of economic development, and believes this creative class brings energy and innovation to cities.”

The Hill Times
“Richard Florida says society is in ‘the midst of a tectonic shift to a fundamentally new economic order, the shift from an industrial to an idea-driven economy.’ It’s headed for another Great Reset.”

Miami Herald

TIME Magazine
“In his latest effort, The Great Reset, Florida explains how societies are ‘reset’ during times of turmoil.”

New York Times

Toronto Star
“It will be difficult to convince young people to move away from the ‘thick’ job market in big cities, said Kevin M. Stolarick, research director of The Martin Prosperity Institute with the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management.”

New York Post
“To Richard Florida, calling today’s economic woes the “Great Recession” doesn’t begin to describe the tectonic forces at work.”

NB Business Journal
“Kevin Stolarick has a four-point plan to make Atlantic Canada grow. The research director of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute says his process is not an easy fix of the region’s trend of so-called brain drain, but he can offer some lessons from his travels.”

Ottawa Business Journal

Ottawa Citizen
How important is high-speed rail between Ottawa and Toronto? Richard Florida says it is a “game-changer.”

The Daily News (New York)

Ottawa Citizen
“Richard Florida in his new book The Great Reset notes that families during the Depression quickly bought the new invention of radio because it was, after the initial hefty investment, a cheap form of entertainment.”

Wall Street Journal
Today’s economy requires a more mobile workforce.

Toronto Star
“But resets are times when the fortunes of cities, regions and nations change dramatically. They are times of chaos and suffering, but also of tremendous innovation.”

Maclean’s
“And, says Kevin Stolarick, research director of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute, as places become more prosperous, they become happier.”

Financial Post
“Those notions and an appreciation of urban studies guru Richard Florida’s observations of a new “untethered” workforce inspired Mr. Coish, who spent years in the traditional agency world, to open Cloud Advertising Agents, an agency with no office.”

Ottawa Citizen
“Renowned futurist Dr. Richard Florida places Ottawa among the top three cities in North America in his creative class rankings. With the right leadership, self-confidence, and a promotional energy, Ottawa will be Canada’s creative economy capital.”

Richard Florida was a guest on CITY TV’s Breakfast Television on May 19. He discussed his new book, The Great Reset.

Newsweek
“As the economy rebounds, can we transform America’s service sector jobs into higher-paying careers?”

New York Times
“The recipes of other cities for creating the next Silicon Valley usually leave out a few main ingredients. Richard Florida, who wrote ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’ and studies why certain cities foster creativity, cites three crucial factors: talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open-mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.”

Times Colonist
“A couple of years ago, Florida wrote the book Who’s Your City. In it, he says that where we live is as important as what we do for a living and who we spend our lives with. His book deals primarily with the U.S. and metropolitan areas, but his basic points are relevant when it comes to Port Alberni and Campbell River.”

Globe and Mail
“Richard Florida says it’s time to stop propping up the old economy. His solution? Ditch the car, live downtown and become a renter.”

Total Picture Radio
How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post Crash Prosperity: A Conversation with Richard Florida

Montreal Gazette
“Local entrepreneurship, arts and cultural industries … have become the core stuff of economic development, writes Richard Florida in The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity.”

time.com
“Strong university towns like Atlanta, Boston and San Jose benefit from having students and faculty there – living, working and buying stuff, Stolarick said. The people benefit because the university typically brings great speakers and events to town. The surrounding city also tends to have greater access to technology, like city-wide Wifi.”

WDET

The Atlantic
“Richard Florida, Atlantic contributor and author of The Great Reset, thinks the American dream might get a divorce from the house and car. Cars make sense for suburbanites commuting into a dense big city on cheap gas and open roads. The future of America is crowded with expanding mega-tropolises and mega-regions stitched together with public transit and high speed rail.”

Planetizen
The Urbanophile reviews Richard Florida’s new book, defending his populist approach and tackling Florida’s central arguments of investing in the grassroots, encouraging “rentership” and the fundamental societal changes coming soon.

Bloomberg Businessweek
“This is the absolute worst time to lose our residential mobility,” said Richard Florida, a professor of U.S. urban theory at the University of Toronto, citing the fledgling economic recovery. “It’s important for people to move to where the new opportunities are, because that is the cornerstone of our idea-driven economy.”

CityTV
“But size does matter. As Richard Florida notes in Who’s Your City? (2009), Canada is more urban than much of the United States and even parts of Europe: approximately 80 per cent of the country’s population lives on two per cent of our land area. “

LA Times
“Communities with lower levels of mobility do have higher levels of trust and well-being, but they also have much less higher rates of productivity and innovation,” said Richard Florida, a professor of U.S. urban theory at the University of Toronto. “I would err in a downturn on making sure people have economic opportunities.”

The Fiscal Times
“Richard Florida, author of the new book ‘The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity’, argues that periods of economic distress can ultimately lead to significant demographic change — and that to capitalize on the changes to come, we need to develop and embrace the creative abilities of our citizens in order to take advantage of a nimble new economy.”

Fast Company
“What doesn’t kill cities during this crisis will make them stronger. This is Richard Florida’s diagnosis in The Great Reset, which picks up where his last foray into pop economic geography, Who’s Your City? left off.”

BNET
“Richard Florida’s latest book, The Great Reset, looks at the lasting effects of economic recessions: how they’ve shaped our society in the past, and how the one we’re currently in will do so again over the next few decades.”

ctv.ca

Toronto Star
“Like kindred spirit Richard Florida, lured from Carnegie Mellon University three years ago to head Toronto’s new Martin Prosperity Institute, Kaplan promotes suitable cities as ‘hot spots of urban innovation’.”

welt.de
The MPI’s Charlotta Mellander has authored a column in one of Europe’s larger daily papers, Die Welt.

cnn.com
“The book puts quite a positive spin on the recent recession, the Great Depression and other times of economic stress. These periods are, according to Florida, times of great innovation, invention and risk taking. So if you’re looking for a book to brighten your outlook on current events, pick up this one!”

wnyc.org

“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.”

NPR
“Urban thinker Richard Florida agrees that owning a home is not always better than renting. In his new book The Great Reset, Florida quotes an economist who believes “America needs to get over its house passion.” Florida talks to Steve Inskeep about new ways to live and work post-recession.”

bloomberg.com
“To understand why today’s crisis is a truly terrible thing to waste, consider the Panic of 1873, says Richard Florida in his latest ode to economic innovation, ‘The Great Reset’.”

“How has the global financial meltdown affected cities around the world? BNN speaks to urbanist Richard Florida, author of the new book, ‘The Great Reset’.”

BusinessWeek
“Our economic system needs to stop channeling funds into super-risky, highly leveraged, and speculative areas,” writes Richard Florida in The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity. “Instead we must return to the original vision and purpose of the financial markets: supporting innovation and the growth of the real economy,” adds Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Business.

National Post
Toronto’s rock star urban theorist Richard Florida tells the latest Toronto Life this month that the band Black Sabbath “is still underrated.”

GOOD
Interview with Richard Florida on what makes a perfect neighborhood.

National Post
“It may be that people who can’t sell their homes are deciding that, if they have to stay put, they might as well renovate,” says Richard Florida.

The New York Times
Richard Florida has parsed the data to focus on what makes a state’s labor force more or less likely to work longer weeks and get higher pay.

Catholic Register
The patent obsession is a mistake, said James Milway, who is executive director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto. “From a purely utilitarian angle, it’s not about science and engineering,” Milway told The Catholic Register. “It’s as much about the liberal arts.”

Toronto Life
Richard Florida is soothsaying once more. The U of T professor told BusinessWeek that American ingenuity—which is often foreign ingenuity—is waning because the world’s most talented individuals are either not coming to America or are being seduced away from America by such countries as Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

thestar.com
“Toronto is the most ambitious place I’ve lived,” says Richard Florida, the urban-policy guru who heads up the Martin Prosperity Institute, a think-tank at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Brockville Recorder and Times
Kevin Stolarick is the research director with the Martin Prosperity Institute, a University of Toronto think-tank that has been taking part in the “Agenda …

National Post
Kevin Stolarick writes: “It’s time for the service sector to undertake the same kind of transformation. Services are the jobs of the future. Production might move to China or India, but the financing, marketing, advertising, design and sales are still run out of New York and Toronto. And, most service work cannot be shipped offshore — how would you offshore your haircut or your dry cleaning?”

The Atlantic
So with the help of my statistically minded colleagues at the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute, I decided to take a different kind of look. We rated and ranked medal performance by the size of each country’s population. We’ve dubbed this new ranking system the Winter Olympic Medals Per Capita Metric, WMPC for short, where we rank medals per one million people.

The Atlantic
It’s been hard to justify high-speed rail (HSR) projects in terms of conventional cost-benefit analysis. But, it may be time to rethink—and broaden—the way we think of the benefits of HSR. HSR’s benefits are usually thought of in terms of lowering transport costs by reducing problems like gridlock, pollution, and travel time. But the real benefit of HSR may turn on its ability to expand economic growth, according to a new analysis by my colleagues at the Martin Prosperity Institute.

The New York Times
Now Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and his colleague Charlotta Mellander have taken a closer look at the metropolitan well-being numbers. They found moderate correlations between happiness and other factors, like wages, unemployment and output per capita.

San Francisco Chronicle
Richard Florida points out in his commentary on the survey, published on the Atlantic Wire, the cities that fare badly for happiness — Detroit, Providence, Tampa and Jacksonville, for example — are mainly housing-dependent Sunbelt cities and Rustbelt locations that have been hard hit by what he terms the “great reset”, namely the technology-driven new geographies of living and working, which, he believes, will drive the economic recovery.

Winnipeg Free Press
A new study of creative sectors in 11 North America cities including Winnipeg gives the city high marks in a variety of categories, including No. 1 for the number of “bohemians” and No. 2 for “super creative” workers.

The study by The Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto and Pittsburgh consulting firm Catalytix Inc. used criteria touted by U.S. urban economist Richard Florida and championed locally by former Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray.

Listen to the radio interview on CJOB.

getknowinggetgrowing.com

The Wall Street Journal
Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, said he thinks competition among states has calmed down amid the recession because there is less to fight over. He said that while many economic-development policy makers want to use the same incentives as competing states, many academics are finding that “at best they don’t work, and at worst they’re counterproductive and wasteful.”

The New York Times
Richard Florida comments on “The New ‘Means’ Migration.”

The American Prospect’s Alec MacGillis critiques Richard Florida:
“Cities that shelled out big bucks to learn Richard Florida’s prescription for vibrant urbanism are now hearing they may be beyond help.”

Ryan Avent, Online Economics Editor for The Economist, responds to MacGills here:

The Urban Economy
“I am generally a fan of the American Prospect and a very big fan of the people who work there, but the magazine’s latest issue, which highlights “The Post-Boom City” on the cover strikes me as a whiff all the way around. I discuss the Special Report on manufacturing here, but I also want to say a few things about Alec MacGillis’ piece on Richard Florida and urban development.” more…

The Globe and Mail
Other issues persist. Kevin Stolarick, research director of the Rotman School of Management’s Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, argues that, for some portion of the CAMH population, it’s precisely the world outside – noise, traffic, garbage, drugs, rampant commercialization – that often provides triggers to mental illness and addiction. When integration is the order of the day, CAMH may no longer function as a sanctuary for those that need it.

The Windsor Star
Who wrote a report released in February 2009 that says: “The long-run success of Windsor lies in Ontario and not in Michigan.”?

foxbusiness.com
MPI Research cited by Nashville Mayor in Fox Business Interview

bigthink.com

publicvoice.tv
MPI Affiliate and Cultural Mapping expert Greg Baeker interviewed on PublicVoice.tv

UofT Magazine
“In the next 20 years Ontario needs to boost the percentage of the workforce that works in creative positions from 30 to 50 per cent,” says Stolarick. “But getting to 50 per cent doesn’t mean we have to hire a lot more musicians. Getting to 50 per cent means we have to take existing jobs and make them more creative.… We need to increase the skill content, we need to increase the autonomy of the job itself, we need to make the person more responsible.”

cyberpresse.ca

newsdurhamregion.com
Durham Region is on the cusp of a brave new world where citizens celebrate the region’s diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration.

The Hamilton Spectator
Florida says it hasn’t been a recession or depression. He calls it a “reset.” In fact, he’s called his next book The Great Reset and says it explores “new ways of living and working that will really power long-run prosperity.”

The Vancouver Sun
“Canada is home to five times as many music-industry businesses per capita than the United States, according to new analysis from the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute”

tvo.org
Richard Florida and panel discuss “What can we do to foster a world class service culture and transform service jobs in Toronto and the Province of Ontario?” on tvo’s ‘The Agenda with Steve Paikin’.

The Baltimore Sun
The researchers, Peter J. Rentfrow of the University of Cambridge in England, Charlotta Mellander of the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden and Richard Florida (of “The Creative Class” fame) of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, used data from Gallup’s well-being index to figure out which states are happier than others.

Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Toronto-affiliated Martin Prosperity Institute released the study Thursday. Dubbed The Great Musical North, the analysis takes into account the relative per-capita number of record labels, recording studios, music labels and distributers in North American metro areas of more than 500,000.

Florida closed by telling the media and marketing professionals in the audience that, as members of the creative class, they have an obligation to guide society get through this “economic reset.”

The Gazette
“In 2009, there’s nothing that forces you to be in a big city to play music,” says Ian Swain, a researcher with the Martin Prosperity Institute. “You could conceivably record music on your computer in Nunavut, but people obviously cluster in certain cities.”

zdf.de
ZDFmediathek video interview with Richard Florida

Ottawa Citizen
Canada has cities with lots of creative and tolerant people, but it falls short of the United States in turning culture into tangible economic benefits, Richard Florida told officials at City Hall Friday.

The Wall Street Journal
Both cities understand that “to build a super-competitive, super-productive society” that “can attract the world’s best and brightest” professionals from an array of industries they need a world-class arts and culture scene, says Richard Florida

Financial Post
Cities are comprised of two key components: people and infrastructure. While I have my problems with urbanologist Richard Florida’s contention that a great city is merely a matter of finding the right combination of bohos and homos, I do agree that if you attract a critical mass of appealing and creative individuals, you build a city others desire to live in.

Chicago Tribune
“While Chicago’s crosstown rivalry often displays itself in the world of sports, the split may run deeper than visceral attachments to the Cubbies or the Sox. According to newly developed personality maps, the Windy City is balkanized on a whole different level”

Chicago BreakingNewsCenter
Stolarick used data from 2,540 Chicagoans who took the test between February 2006 and February 2008, a subset of the nearly 560,367 who took the test nationwide in that period and supplied their postal codes.

wvpubcast.org
“Speakers discussed the different aspects that are involved in a Creative Community. Kevin Stolarick, research director at the University of Toronto, said the Creative Economy isn’t a fad, and that a three-pronged attack is needed”

Eye Weekly
If you’re looking to become an entrepreneur, you’d better be prepared to fail — and more than once. According to Kevin Stolarick, associate director of the Toronto-based Martin Prosperity Institute, the average self-made business person takes at least three kicks at the entrepreneurial can before managing the trick of success.

The Atlantic
Our Richard Florida has the stats here and Catherine Rampell has a nice summary at Economix.

The Windsor Star
A few weeks ago, the 2009 Asia-Pacific Cities Summit was held in Korea where the heads of 157 cities from all over the world had active discussion on “the Development of a Creative City.” Prof. Richard Florida of the University of Toronto, known as an authority on the theory of “City Creation,” received wide attention as a result of his presentation: Mankind is facing the most drastic change in its history and cities, not enterprises, have to take the lead in developing the model of future economic growth.

The Charleston Gazette
It used to be where you were located was essential for regional success because the physical shipping of goods was all important, said keynote speaker Kevin Stolarick, a researcher from the University of Toronto described as “the statistician of the creative economy.”

thestar.com
The one characteristic we share across the board? Conscientiousness, a “Canadian trait,” says Stolarick.

Daily News
“Today’s key economic factors – talent, innovation, and creativity – are not distributed evenly across the global economy. They concentrate in specific locations. In today’s creative economy, the real source of economic growth comes from the clustering and concentration of talented and productive people. The clustering force makes each of us more productive, which in turn makes the places we inhabit much more productive, generating great increases in output and wealth.”

thestar.com
Kevin Stolarick, research director for the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, said the steady decline of North American manufacturing jobs means the city’s economic future lies in people who are “paid to think.”

National Post
On the Bohemian Index —a measure of whether a region has more or fewer professional artistically creative people than the average region — Toronto scores third among its North American peers (ahead of Seattle, Boston and Chicago and just behind Vancouver and Los Angeles).

Forth Worth Business Press
Florida said he believes the driving force behind a strong economy for an area is directly related to the talent pool available in that area. We live in, not in the “information age,” but the “creative age,” he said.

The Atlantic
What determines the level of attachment people have to their communities? And how do those levels of attachment and community satisfaction affect local economies? These are big questions that cross the boundaries of urbanism, economics, sociology, and psychology.

The Wall Street Journal
Here’s a look at the survey’s top five cities: Washington, D.C., Seattle, New York, Portland (Ore.), and Austin (Texas).

The Atlantic
Richard Florida’s rankings: New York City, Washington, D.C, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Chicago, and Boulder/Denver.

The Journal Times.com
The “value” of the Mom-and-Pop shop extends far beyond the traditional economic metrics of business profitability and can find a home in the writings of people like Richard Florida who, as an economist and scholar, articulates as well as demonstrates the importance of “quality of life” conditions to the overall economic health of a community. These quality of life conditions speak directly to the “value-added” impact Mom-and-Pop shops have in their local community.

Ottawa Citizen
Kevin Stolarick writes: The first challenge is getting people to understand that when I say Creative Class, it is more than just your stereotypical “creatives” such as artists — the Creative Class is all about thinking. People who are being paid to think; those whose creativity generates the innovations that drive growth and prosperity…

itbusiness.ca
“It’s not the machines that make the factory great,” Florida’s father told him. “It’s the intelligence of the people that work here.”

Excalibur
Over the past century, we’ve progressed past the Industrial Revolution, survived the birth pains of globalization and have now transcended into what some term the “creative economy.” What is this creative economy?

CBC
The MPI’s Kevin Stolarick discussed new & disappearing jobs on a segment of CBC’s ‘The Current’, broadcast on Sept 10, 2009.

Weekly Volcano
Remember America’s No. 1 Wired City? But the information economy is passé now. Next up is the creative economy, as popularized by economic development hipster Richard Florida.

Life at HOK
Jane Jacobs, #1 on the Planetizen List
Richard Florida, also on the list

The Sacramento Bee
In his book “Who’s Your City?” University of Toronto professor Richard Florida mapped out the ratio of single men to women ages 20 to 64 in urban areas across the United States. The resulting visual showed an astonishing pattern: The East Coast is a magnet for single women, while every metropolitan area west of Denver has a significantly higher proportion of single men.

Anchorage Daily News
In the best-selling book, “The Rise of the Creative Class,” Richard Florida points out successful, growing communities are places accepting of gay and lesbian people.

Toledo Free Press
All this begs the question that Florida asks, “Who’s your city?” What is the “personality” of our city? Or, what is the “Spirit” of Toledo?

EurActiv.com
A leading thinker on creativity believes attracting talented people is the driving force behind successful cities. In an interview with EurActiv, Richard Florida, author of ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’, said European countries are battling to attract and retain innovative people.

EurActiv.com
Economic growth is driven by creativity, so if we want to increase it, we have to utilise the creativity of everyone. We are all creative beings and have the potential to [contribute to] the creative economy.

The Atlantic
The bailout is massively concentrated in just a few states. Total bailout funding, according to the ProPublica data, is $476.5 billion to date.

Brisbane Times
Academic Richard Florida tackles the enduring appeal of the city in his book Who’s Your City. He writes: ‘‘Globalisation is not flattening the world; on the contrary, the world is spiky. Place is becoming more relevant to the global economy and our individual lives. The choice of where to live, therefore, is not an arbitrary one. It is arguably the most important decision we make, as important as choosing a spouse or a career. In fact, place exerts powerful influence over the jobs and careers we have access to, the people we meet and our ‘mating markets’ and our ability to lead happy and fulfilled lives.’‘ Florida’s point is: where you live matters.

Eye Weekly
When it comes to the education you get, Milway says you don’t have to be too picky. Getting a commerce degree might be cool, but if it isn’t your thing, you should look elsewhere. “Go with what you love and life will take care of itself,” Milway advises. “Get a degree where you have some passion and where you’re invested.” But whatever you do, even if it’s learning to become an accountant (yes, accounting counts as a creatively oriented occupation) or learning a trade, don’t stop at high school. “The more education, the better,” he says.

Eye Weekly
The Martin Prosperity Institute isn’t your average, run-of-the-academic-treadmill brainiac camp: it’s super-cool as well. Here’s how they did it!

Eye Weekly
Here’s his recipe for baking a successful creative age economy.

The Toronto Star
As we move into the creative age, Toronto must continue to build on its strengths – its multicultural and talented workforce – and leverage these to become more innovative. The stronger the Toronto CMA can perform on each of the 3Ts, the more creative and prosperous it will be.

The Ottawa Citizen
These indices cluster ideas and clearly stem from the thinking of people such as Jane Jacobs and Richard Florida about what makes for a good city. Rankings are therefore changeable by design: Arts policies, public transit, maintenance and accessibility of recreational facilities, encouraging walkable and lively neighbourhoods and affordable and attractive space for creative industries.

NYTimes.com
Luckily, as it turns out, Richard Florida has already whipped up some fascinating charts looking at many of these relationships.

The Atlantic
Here’s incontrovertible evidence that Democrats are hippies and libertines: demographer, urban theorist, and Altantic Correspondents blogger Richard Florida finds that marijuana and cocaine use rates are higher in states that voted for Obama in November…and, more notably, that more votes for Obama actually correlate to more residents who use marijuana and cocaine.

The Globe and Mail
And that’s a valuable talent in a Richard Florida-influenced world that believes the creative ecosystem is the answer to every city’s dreams.

Bloomberg.com
Richard Florida, a business professor at Toronto University, plotted large US market percentage increases from 2006 through the first quarter of 2009. …

The Tennessean – Nashville,TN,USA
This “quality of place” is what author Richard Florida writes about in his book The Rise of the Creative Class. In today’s new economy, he states that …

ReportonBusiness.com
Ontario has been specifically inspired by the “creative cities” thesis of Richard Florida, a University of Toronto professor and consultant to Queen’s Park. …

Trendhunter.com
Interview with Richard Florida

O’Connall Street
… have also written on this subject most notably Richard Florida whose books include the Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class …

E-Commerce Times – USA
In fact, it matters more than ever, according to author Richard Florida. At the intersection of Opportunity and Culture, the concepts of Friedman and …

Raise the Hammer – Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
In previous article, I’ve noted research (compiled by Richard Florida in his recent book Who’s Your City? ) finding that density increases the efficiency …

Speakers include Aflac president and chief operating officer of Aflac U.S. Paul S. Amos, NBC News correspondent Norah O’Donnell, best-selling author and financial columnist Richard Florida, Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy and Gen. David Petraeus, commander of United States Central Command.

OregonLive.com
The “creative class” refers to the professionals in the Pop economy theories of Richard Florida and Daniel Pink: America’s competitive future rests with a highly educated 20- and 30-something creative work force of right-brained analysts, not traditional, information-based white collar attorneys and engineers…

NewGeography.com
Richard Florida described this in his Atlantic Monthly article on the financial crash. “As the manufacturing industry has shrunk, the local high-end services—finance, law, consulting—that it once supported have diminished as well…

KNPR – Nevada Public Radio
We talk with Author Richard Florida about his book, “Who’s Your City?” that argues people should know the temperament of the town they’re living in.

Cleveland Scene Weekly
We have Richard Florida to thank for lumping arts and technology together, but he’s not the first to argue that a strong arts sector — which we certainly have — can lure people to cities to spend money.

The Seattle Times
Richard Florida discusses the rise of “means metros” in an article on McKinsey & Co.‘s blog. These are the urban areas that in recent decades have gathered a disproportionate share of America’s most talented workers. Seattle is among this elite few.

TheAtlantic.com
Citing the work of Richard Florida, Cummings describes the city’s current era as a “creative class-led transformation of New Orleans.”

Tennessean.com
Richard Florida, the sociologist who wrote about “the creative class” as such an important ingredient for economic growth and vitality, has written that Nashville “sucked up all the growth in the music industry” between 1970 and 2004, meaning it grew more than other cities in numbers of musicians.

Milwaukee Gay Community Examiner
Florida argued that educated kids are generally moving to the most “gay-friendly” cities after graduating from college because those cities tend to have the best job markets.

TheAtlantic.com
The graph below, compiled by Scott Pennington of the Martin Prosperity Institute, shows patent trends from 1976 to 2007 for the top 10 U.S. regions. The graph identifies a clear shift in the geography of patenting.

Globe and Mail
“Ontario in the Creative Age”, written by Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, and Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, makes the compelling case that the ability to compete in a global economy is inexorably linked to connectivity, that the rapid movement of people, goods and ideas is a critical competitive asset.

The Wall Street Journal
Some economists, including urban theorist Richard Florida, have used this slowdown in mobility to argue against government policies that subsidize home ownership — the argument being that increased home ownership hampers economic flexibility by making Americans less mobile.

Financial Post Magazine
“Right now, with unemployment where it is, labour shortages are the furthest thing from people’s minds,” says Jim Milway, executive director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, a Toronto-based economic think tank. “But mark my words, this recession will end – whether in six, or nine, or 12 months – and those ‘Help Wanted’ signs will be going back up.”

Dallas Generation Y Examiner
The list was developed by Richard Florida and Kevin Slolarick at the Martin Prosperity Institute. They are based upon a variety of variables, and were conducted upon 363 metropolitan cities.

IndianaNewsCenter.com
Recently, an article written by Professor Richard Florida, an American Urban Studies Theorist, stated that cities and towns not closely connected to high speed rails may miss out on economic growth opportunities in the future.

Gainesville has grown used to making various publications’ top 10 lists – including No. 1 in “Cities Ranked and Rated” in 2007 – but a couple of statistics analyzed for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine kept the city out of the “Best Cities 2009” top 10 for its July edition, and one statistic in particular shows an alarming drop in wages.

The reason why software companies tend to be located in fun places is because, like Richard Florida argued in his book The Creative Class, cool people with skills want to live in nice cities.

Lies, damned lies and indicators.

The Martin Prosperity Institute, utilizing Florida’s model, released a report for the Hamilton Economic Summit a couple of months ago on how Hamilton is faring on those 3Ts. It noted, “Given the challenges that Hamilton faces as it transitions from an industrial centre based on mass production into the knowledge based creative economy, the region does surprisingly better on the 3Ts of economic development than was anticipated.”

Dayton Daily News
Urban theorist Richard Florida says that communities that have talent, tolerance and technology, while accommodating the cultural, creative and technological needs of talented people, are best poised to succeed in a post-industrial economy.

You’ve probably read Richard Florida’s stuff — which the Obama-ites in the White House love — suggesting links between cities will create mega-hubs of economic power that are the future of the continental economy. In the Pacific Northwest, we call it Cascadia. It would be nice to be part of that.

Smaller town, bigger edge. What does Waterloo have that we don’t? Mennonite pragmatism and an inferiority complex.

The Urban Loft
Of all of the books I’ve read by Richard Florida this has by far been the most compelling.

New York Times
She cited studies, by Richard Florida, an urban theorist, that some of the most promising ingredients for economic development are talent, technology and tolerance.

Model D
Richard Florida is that creative class guy. Some agree with him, some don’t. Wherever you fall on Florida, he does make some good points in his piece in the Atlantic that Detroit should pay attention to.

Time.com
One of the key ideas fueling HSR is that the U.S. in the 21st century has grown beyond a country of cities and suburbs to what urban-studies expert Richard Florida calls “mega-regions.”

HartfordBusiness.com
Richard Florida, author of the best-selling book, “The Rise of the Creative Class,” and the more recently published “Flight of the Creative Class,” says creative workers constitute 30 percent of the American work force and earn 50 percent of the salaries. That’s a significant chunk of people and payroll to manage.

Richard Florida weighs in as “20/20” asks what the “new normal” is when it comes to getting ahead in the U.S.

London Free Press
Educating new generations is obviously critical. But to observers like Stolarick, the institute’s research director, so is finding ways to hang onto creative young minds after they’re done school.

An article in Le Soleil on June 16, a newspaper in Quebec City, looked at research conducted by Kevin Stolarick from the Rotman School’s Martin Prosperity Institute.

_The Georgia Straight _
Dr. Florida believes the concentration of people, and especially newcomers, in these urban areas has generated many desirable benefits, such as scientific advancements; explosions of creativity in art, writing, and music; and thousands of jobs in the emerging green-tech sector.

Yet, although cities in Canada have clearly emerged as centres of human capital, their growth has had a correspondingly devastating impact on natural capital—ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, and rivers that sustain the health and well-being of the very people who live there.

Why Certain Cities Attract Gen Ys
by Richard Florida

MPI Research Director Kevin Stolarick received recognition from Toronto Mayor David Miller for Kevin’s significant contribution to the Placing Creativity Conference.

Exec Digital – UK
There is hope in the world of business, say some academic thinkers. It comes in the form of a concept called The Creative Economy. Two chief proponents are leading scholars Richard Florida and Roger Martin of the Martin Prosperity Institute of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

TimesUnion.com
The economist Richard Florida, now a professor at the University of Toronto, notes in his research that the young have always been drawn to big cities, and says today’s youth place particular emphasis on living in creative, diverse and interesting cities.

ABCNews.com
ABC News interviews Kiplinger’s Bob Frick on their report on the Ten Best Cities of 2009 to Find Work. MPI Research Director, Kevin Stolarick, is cited.

Global City’s inaugural Middle East edition ends on successful note

Ottawa a “hot spring” of innovation

Ontario competes, but has room to grow

Who’s Your City!

Time for Vancouver to get aboard Obama’s Cascadia Express

Region suffers from ‘brain drain’

Diamond in the rust

Creative minds will gather at EDC’s next Project Innovation program

Chamber touts our strengths

Scholar: It’s Time For The Post-Automotive Era

Arts council receives $40,000 grant for arts-in-education program

Economic downturn called opportunity to modernize

Minority Rules: Sex Ratios and Suffrage

Move house and join your favourite cluster

Creativity Killed the Recession blog features Dr. Kevin Stolarick in a 4-part series.

Mapped out: Britain’s personality clusters

Another laurel for Fredericton

Urban guru ranks Guelph among top 10 in Canada

Ottawa-Gatineau tops in list of favourite cities to live

Ottawa: It’s Canada’s Most Creative Place

Canada must seize the advantage

Ils sont plus scolarisés que les Canadiens de souche

Will stimulus debts spur an effective fix?

The creative compact

Urban Living: Home, sweet home by Chet Wesley

National Post columnist Jonathan Kay calls Richard Florida “the world’s most influential living urban theorist”.

In recognition of International Women’s Day, The Bulletin interviews Marisol on Achieving Gender Equity, and features her paintings.

Planning guru Richard Florida holds out some hope for Vegas

Richard Florida on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos.

CBC Sunday interviews Richard Florida.

How the Crash Will Reshape America, by Richard Florida.

L’heure de gloire de la «classe créative» par Marc Allard

Daniel Lak of CBC News discusses the economic crisis with MPI Research Director Kevin Stolarick.

The bumpy economic ride far from over by Christina Blizzard

Waterloo Region in the Creative Age

Work smarter, not harder by Laura Cudworth

Opinion Point of View: To be economic leader, we have to get to work by Paul Berton

What Martin-Florida blueprint gets right and wrong by David Olive

While markets burn, Ontario dithers by Thomas Walkom

Help Begins at Home by Paulette Bourgeois

Factories and farms by John Meyer

Ottawa ‘world leader’ of new economy by Lee Greenberg

NDP blasts report on province’s jobs future by Antonella Artuso

Turning buzzwords into reality by Jim Coyle

Editorial: An opportunity to be creative

Brains, not brawn, will save Ontario: Report

Ontario’s prosperity hinges on harnessing creativity; Province should aim for half its workforce to have high-paying, high-value jobs by 2030 by Richard Florida and Roger Martin

McGuinty asked for ideas, now courage is called for by John Barber

Economic crisis: The shakeup Canadians need? Report on Ontario’s prosperity urges a transition to a new creative economy from the dying industrial age by Karen Howlett

Don’t Scrimp on Creativity

‘Creative’ economy touted for Ontario by Sandro Contenta and Robert Benzie

Report: London’s future in knowledge industries By Randy Richmond

Video of the presentation of The Ontario in the Creative Age report to Minister of Economic Development, Michael Bryant, with Dr. Richard Florida and Dean Roger Martin. Recorded at the Economic Club of Toronto.

Un rapport à poser sur la table de chevet de Jean Charest et de Pauline Marois

Report urges ‘creativity-oriented economy’ for Ontario by Sandro Contenta

Invest in Creativity: Report by Antonella Artuso

Toronto in the future – Matt Galloway speaks with Richard Florida

Changing Places – Peter Day speaks with Richard Florida

Russia’s youth ready to embrace the dawn of a new era by Richard Florida

Former Bankers Turn to a Creative Plan B by Hannah Seligson

High-speed rail links urged for Ontario by Sandro Contenta

Looking at the recession as an opportunity by Sandro Contenta

Live, work, shop by Tracey Taylor

Where a recession will hurt the most by Richard Florida and James Milway

The Triumph Of The Creative Class by Joel Kotkin

The new politics of class war point to a frightening future by Richard Florida

Each person should find their dream in Barrie, Florida says

Harnessing Montreal’s creativity by Phyllis Lambert

Creativity is economic engine for cities

Economics of open source remains an academic challenge by Dana Blankenhorn

Opinion: Keep the door open to world talent; reject to Prop. 8 by Andrew J. Szeri

Dance the dance, pay the piper

Individual identity vs. the financial crisis by Richard Florida

The case for strong cities

Terre Haute area jobless rate gets higher, incomes slow to grow by Mark Bennett

If you want to succeed, live where the brightest in your field do – Review of Who’s Your City by Kelvin Browne

Best Cities to Live, Work and Play

People climate or business climate? by Tim Coates

Our small communities shouldn’t be poor and forgotten by Joyce Fairbairn

Cities that act attract young people by Peter Moorhouse & Cheryl Stewart

City’s creativity relies on affordability, author says by Frances Bula

Keeping Portland Unique: An urban celebrity kicks off

Businesses warned about growth’s possible downside by Jonathan Nelson

Big cities pump out university grads: study by Andrew Thompson

In ideas economy, cities, must attract ‘creative class’ by Steven Hunt

Record Breaking Small-time is big-time for a crafty local label Sort Of Records by Arron Jentzen

Hamilton poised for global greatness by Meredith MacLeod

Soul and the City by Larissa Dubecki

Who’s His Lady? by Shinan Govani

The Rise of the Mega-Region by Richard Florida

Becoming a Creative City

Richard Florida by Marc Weisblott

Creative Politics by Richard Florida

Choosing Home: The Current Advice? Find a City With a Strong Creative Class by Stephen Eaton Hume

Home Is Where the Paycheck Is by Marc Fisher

G is for Guru by Jim Sutherland

Why Philadelphia’s Economic Future Looks so Bright by Richard Florida

A Singles Map of the United States of America by Richard Florida

For Cities to Prosper in the ‘New Economy’ Lively Arts Scene Needed by Walter Mulkewich

Florida heads north for Banff Keynote by Etan Vlessing

Among the 40 ‘Megas’ Denver grabs lofty rank in global economy by Richard Florida

What Does Your City Say About You? by Katie Paul

Breathing Life Back Into the Cities by John Gapper

Do we need Bohemians for Development? by David Campbell

Who’s your city? Book Excerpt

Value of Employment Lands

Choosing a Place to Live by Bret Schulte

Prosperity Researched

Megaregions: The Importance of Place by Richard Florida

Kingston in 25 Years: Bright Lights Big City by Ken Cuthbertson

Partnerships Key to Toronto’s Prosperity by David Hatton

Tank Heaven: Our Brainiest Zaniest Think Tanks by Mike Miner

Capturing the Creative Class by Brian Donahue

Raw Thought Power by Ken Gray

Scientists, Engineers are key to a City’s Growth by Jordana Huber

Somewhere Beyond the Rainbow by San Grewel, Staff Reporter

Toronto’s Creative Capitalism by Chandler Levack

Creating Better McJobs gives food for thought by John Spears, City Hall Bureau

U of T’s Prosperity Institute Addresses Ontario’s Competitiveness by Maria Seros Leung

Urban Legend by Alec Scott