New Insights have been published about food deserts in Toronto and Chicago.

The City of Toronto has opened up a call for applications for the 2010/2011 Toronto Urban Fellows Program, which provides talented new professionals with an intensive introduction to the governance, operations and administration of Canada’s largest city through a combination of full-time work experience and participation in a series of seminars, tours and workshops.

The deadline for applying to the program is May 31, 2010.

The primary eligibility criteria is that candidates must have graduated with a Master’s degree or PhD within the past three years. Internationally educated professionals are welcome and encouraged to apply.

For details about the Toronto Urban Fellows program (placements, salary & benefits, eligibility requirements, application process, etc.), please visit: http://www.toronto.ca/urbanfellows

The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity releases its annual Report on Canada on Tuesday, June 8 from 8:00 a.m. to noon in Toronto.

For more information or to register click here

Kevin Stolarick, research director of The Martin Prosperity Institute, will speak at the Model D Speaker Series May 12 at the Westin Book Cadillac in downtown Detroit. The discussion is on higher education’s role in city building.

The 8th Annual Global Health Conference will be held on Tuesday, May 4 from 8:30-5:00 at the University of Toronto.

The MPI’s Marisol D’Andrea is a participating artist in the exhibition of student and community art. ‘Clear Eyes, Full Hearts: Social Responsibility Today’ is presented as part of the Conference in conjunction with the Stone Lobby Student Curators Exhibition.

Click here for more information on the conference and the exhibition.

“Richard Florida, bestselling author of Who’s Your City? and The Rise of the Creative Class, returns with a much-needed and original vision as we emerge from the economic downturn, illuminating the incredible opportunity our times present for rethinking our future.”

The Great Reset will be released in Canada on April 27th by Random House Canada.

The Hart House Art Committee is accepting proposals for artworks from any University of Toronto
student (full-time, part-time, undergraduate, or graduate) to be exhibited within Hart House on the St.George Campus.

EXTENDED DEADLINE for submissions is May 15, 2010

Click here for more information

The Martin Prosperity Institute’s sister institute, The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity, is pleased to announce two panelists who will be joining Roger Martin at the release of our Working Paper on the strength of retail management in Ontario and Canada:

Dene Rogers, President & CEO of Sears Canada Inc.

David Soberman, Marketing Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

The Working Paper features new research on the quality of retail in management in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

The release of the Working Paper by Roger Martin and the panelists’ discussion will take place at The Rotman School of Management, Fleck Atrium, 105 St. George Street, 8:00 am to 10:00 am on Thursday, April 8, 2010.

There is no charge for this event, but space is limited. Registration is required.

Dan Taylor (Prince Edward County Economic Development)and Dr. Greg Spencer(Munk Centre, University of Toronto) will present ‘The creative economy in Ontario: A Prince Edward County case example’ as the next installment of the Creative Economy Seminar Series at Queen’s University.

The seminar will take place on Tuesday March 23 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM in Room 304, Goodes Hall.

The Martin Prosperity Institute’s sister institute, The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity, is pleased to announce the release of Working Paper 13 on management strength in the retail sector on April 8, 2010 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at The Rotman School of Management.

The Working Paper features recent research done by the Institute on the strength of management in Canada’s and Ontario’s retail sector.The Working Paper follows the Institute’s work on Canada and Ontario’s manufacturing sector, presented in Working Paper 12, Management matters.

There is no charge for this event, but space is limited. Registration is required.

The MPI’s Kevin Stolarick will be speaking at the University of Southampton’s conference on Higher Education and the Creative Economy on March 23rd. He will present a keynote called “The University and the Creative Economy: Is This Thing On?”.

The conference takes place in Southampton, UK on March 22nd and 23rd.

Typical cost-benefit analysis of high-speed rail considers benefits like reduced travel times, reduced congestion, and reduced pollution. The new issue of Insights makes a case that other economy-expanding effects should also be considered: expansion of the labour pool and job market, and extension of the effects of major infrastructure across the broader region.

This two-week intensive program is offered by HEC Montréal and the University of Barcelona,
in collaboration with ESADE and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Discover and experience
two of the most creative cities in the world.

Montreal : July 2nd to 9th
Barcelona : July 10th to 17th

Experience the Creative Economy is a unique conference which allows scholars new in their careers to experience notions of the creative economy in a small and focused setting. This conference will bring together up to 25 individuals with similar research interests to share their work, receive feedback, foster the development of effective research methods and to establish an ongoing framework of collaborative learning and mutual exchange for years to come. Learn more about the conference, and how to apply to attend.

Municiapal World recently published a municipal cultural planning handbook for Canadian communities by MPI affiliate Greg Baeker.

Rediscovering the Wealth of Places is a practical introduction to core planning concepts and tools. This includes a methodology for cultural mapping and the systematic identification of a wide range of local cultural assets. A strong focus is placed on the effective integration of culture in planning across municipal departments, and with a look at some leading practices from Canada and around the world.

This important work includes chapters from Elena Bird; David T. Brown; Susan M. Gardner; Jeannette Hanna; Gord Hume; Jennifer Keesmaat; Mark Kuznicki; Colin Mercer; and Kevin Stolarick.

The Martin Prosperity Institute’s Dr. Kevin Stolarick is presenting a seminar on ‘The rural creative economy: Issues and challenges’ as part of the Creative Economy Seminars at Queen’s University.

The seminar will take place on February 16, 2010 from 12 – 1 pm.

The MPI’s Kevin Stolarick, Ian Swain, and Patrick Adler explain why Ottawa should integrate high-speed commuter rail into its public transit infrastructure in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Public Transit in Ottawa.

Academic Director Richard Florida will release his next book “The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity” on April 27th in the United States and Canada. In its analysis of the global downtown and recovery, the book cites a wide range of studies undertaken by the institute. It is to be published by Harper Collins in the US and Random House in Canada.

For more information:
The Great Reset

To pre-order a copy:
Harper Collins (USA)
Random House (Canada)

March 2-3, 2010
MaRS Centre, Toronto

Discuss. Learn. Connect.

Join cultural planning practitioners from across Ontario for an informative workshop on cultural planning and mapping. Presentations on Creative City Network of Canada’s cultural planning and mapping toolkits, panel discussions from those in the field and a facilitated discussion on what’s next will give you the knowledge and connections to move the cultural planning agenda forward in your community.

Learn more…

MPI researcher Patrick Adler will travel to Riga, Latvia in December to present at a seminar hosted by the Baltic Sea Region Innovation Network. He will present a paper entitled “BSR performance according to Talent, Technology and Tolerance”, which he co-wrote with MPI Visiting Researcher Charlotta Mellander. The paper will be published in an upcoming book entitled “Polaris – Navigating Transnational Innovation and Cluster Policies”.

A draft version of the paper can be viewed here.

The Hamilton Spectator
Urban studies guru Richard Florida will be the keynote speaker at the Halton Industry Education Council’s 20th anniversary gala today being held at the Burlington Convention Centre.

While the public perception exists that Canada is a hot spot for music and musicians, an analysis that compares it to the global leader in music production – the United States – helps to separate perception from reality.

Ottawa Citizen
Richard Florida to address Ottawa City Hall on Oct. 30 at Andrew Haydon Hall. Attendees include council, senior staff, economic development staff and some media. There will be a question-and-answer session after his address.

There is evidence that the largest cities are not only centres of innovation but also energy efficiency as well. New research finds that with each increase of 1% in city population, growth in city carbon emissions is 0.92%. In other words, as population increases, CO₂ emissions per capita drop.

HuntingtonNews.net
Kevin Stolarick, Research Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, will talk about the role of the creative economy and the creative class in rural America. Known as the “Official Statistician of the Creative Class,” Stolarick’s talk is entitled, “Creative Economy Outside City Limits.”

The DiverseCity project to build a more diverse leadership in the Greater Toronto Area is inviting applications to its Fellows program. The initiative aims to turn those with a track record of leadership in work, volunteer, academic or community life into leaders at building a better, stronger Toronto region.

The deadline for applications is 5:00pm on Friday, October 9, 2009.

We find that the potential for creative jobs and creative industries in smaller centres and rural areas should not be overlooked.

Congratulations to MPI Research Associate Scott Pennington who has been selected for the Toronto Urban Fellows Program. This exclusive program provides talented new professionals with an intensive introduction to the governance, operations and administration of Canada’s largest city through a combination of full-time work experience and a series of seminars, tours and workshops.

Check out the 3:30 minute animation of the the new Rotman Building that was shared at the ground breaking ceremony last week.

The new building is expected to open in 2011. It will house the Martin Prosperity Institute as well as the Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking and other Centres of Excellence, research programs, classrooms, study space and a 400-seat event space.

The Course Outline for the Martin Prosperity Institute’s new Fall 2009 course ‘Creativity & Business’ is now available.

The interdisciplinary course is presented in collaboration with Queen’s University and the University of Waterloo. It will draw on insights from many fields – management, economics, geography, urban planning, sociology, philosophy, and the arts – to explore the multi‐faceted relationship between creativity and business.

Our time series analysis of United States labour data finds that while some sub-groups of the creative class exhibit consistently higher unemployment, all of them typically outperform the national unemployment rate.

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

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

The Canadian edition of Who’s Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of your Life is now available in bookstores and online at Indigo.ca and Amazon.ca.

Who’s Your City, Canada? Find out with our Place Finder.

How can companies and other organizations tap into and enhance the creative potential of their employees? To explore this question and others, the Martin Prosperity Institute is pleased to announce a new Fall 2009 course called Creativity & Business in collaboration with Queen’s University and the University of Waterloo. The interdisciplinary course will draw on insights from many fields – management, economics, geography, urban planning, sociology, philosophy, and the arts – to explore the multi-faceted relationship between creativity and business. It will focus on the following key elements:

• Talent & Skills
• Tolerance & Diversity
• Technology & Innovation
• Amenities, Benefits & Workspace
• Prosperity & the Multiple Bottom Line
• Managing Creativity in Challenging Times

Instructors will be Kevin Stolarick, Betsy Donald, and Tara Vinodrai. Richard Florida will participate in several class discussions. Students will attend most classes at their registered school, but some weeks the class will travel, both to its partner campuses and to visit businesses that do an exceptional job of harnessing creativity. A fee will be assessed to cover group travel costs.

This is a seminar-style course and space is extremely limited. Students must be eligible to register for graduate courses at either the University of Toronto, Queen’s University or the University of Waterloo. If you’re interested in taking the class, please send a two-paragraph note describing your academic background and reasons for interest in the course to info@martinprosperity.org by July 31, 2009. This deadline may be different at our partner schools – please contact your school’s instructor for details.

Syllabi for related courses offered by the MPI in the past (PDFs): Winter 2008 | Fall 2008

The Martin Prosperity Institute welcomes interested scholars to apply for its upcoming one-year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, commencing September 2009. One or more positions are available.

Applicants should have relevant research experience and hold, or obtain shortly, a PhD in business, economics, geography or a related field. Positions will be filled based on candidate qualifications and research interests. Preference will be given to outstanding candidates whose research interests best complement the Institute’s current research.

This position will be filled for a one-year term (either academic or calendar is negotiable) and holds the possibility of renewal for one additional year. Applications must be received by May 31, 2009.

Detailed information for applicants (PDF)

MPI Post-Doctoral Fellow Karen King will be presenting her paper entitled “Technology, talent and tolerance and internal migration: Evidence from the 2001 Census of Canada” at the 26th International Population Conference 26th International Population Conference in Marrakech, Morocco to be held from 27 September to 2 October 2009.

In the 2008 Ontario budget, the Ontario Government asked Roger Martin, Dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and Richard Florida, Director of the Rotman School’s Martin Prosperity Institute to “undertake a study of the changing composition of Ontario’s economy and workforce, examine historical changes and projected future trends affecting Ontario, and provide recommendations to the Province for ensuring that Ontario’s economy and people remain globally competitive and prosperous.” The first report in this program of research has now been released. Read Ontario in the Creative Age

The DiverseCity project to build a more diverse leadership in the Greater Toronto Area is inviting applications to its nine-month Fellows program. The initiative aims to turn those with a track record of leadership in work, volunteer, academic or community life into leaders at building a better, stronger Toronto region.

As part of our new Insights series of bulletins, we’ve released a brief summary of how economic turbulence affects different categories of jobs: Economic Pain Not Spread Equally. This issue is part of our research project for the government of Ontario, Ontario in the Creative Age.

Research Director Kevin Stolarick presented the report, entitled Funding to Arts and Cultural Organizations by the City of Toronto, 1990-2008, to the City of Toronto’s Economic Development Committee today. The study, co-authored by research assistant Andrew Bell and Dr. Stolarick, benchmarks Toronto’s level of cultural funding. It also notes that the city can leverage its current cultural capital by building on its inclusive nature and existing brand strengths.

Research Director Kevin Stolarick and Executive Director James Milway are participating in the Windsor edition of The Agenda‘s AgendaCamp series. Host Steve Paikin, expert guests, and concerned citizens are workshopping the issues facing Ontario’s manufacturing economy.

Participants are using tools like Flickr, Twitter, and YouTube to build an interactive wiki about Ontario’s economy. Watch the live broadcast on Monday, October 20th at 8 pm on TVO and live streaming on tvo.org.

On October 21, the MPI and the Centre for the Study of the United States present a free lecture by Andrew Gelman on “Why Americans Vote the Way They Do”.

Creative China? The University, Human Capital and the Creative Class in Chinese Regional Development is co-authored by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, and Haifeng Qian.

On his Creative Class Exchange blog, Richard Florida responds to criticism from columnist Neil Reynolds.

The 2nd annual Out on Bay Street Conference & Career Fair is organized by students of Ontario universities to bring the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) business leaders of tomorrow together with corporate Canada. On Friday, October 3, MPI Research Director Kevin Stolarick will participate in a panel discussion on the topic “It’s OK to be Out on Bay Street”. On Saturday, October 4, Kevin will lead a workshop on The Impacts of Gay/Lesbian Populations on Regional Prosperity.

MPI announces the City as System conference, taking place October 9 -11 in Toronto. Details

MPI affiliate Betsy Donald of Queen’s University and MPI directors Richard Florida and Kevin Stolarick have won a prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Business, Finance and Management research grant. Their research will explore the “creative food” economy – specialty, organic, and ethnic foods – and how cultural shifts and changes in consumer demand affect the social dynamics and economic development of urban centres.

Also collaborating on the project are Drs. Alison Blay-Palmer of Wilfred Laurier University and Yolande Chan, Director, Monieson Centre, Queen’s School of Business. The research grant is for $87,000 and runs for 3 years, 2008-2011. Further details are available in this research summary.

This research is related to the MPI’s Creative Industries and the Creative Economy project.

The Creative Regional Strategies course will provide a background in traditional economic development thinking, as well as the theory and practice of economic development in today’s “supply-side” Creative Economy. Course fact sheet

The Creative Economies course will draw on literature from geography, management, and urban planning to explore current theoretical and policy debates on aspects of the creative economy that challenge thinking around ideas of culture, technology, talent, class, diversity, production, manufacturing, services, and land use, among others. While international in scope, special attention will be paid to Ontario examples with designated field trips to creative firms and places in the region. Draft course outline

The MPI welcomes Marisol D’Andrea to the position of Assistant to the Director. She brings extensive communications experience to the MPI and will be responsible for managing Richard Florida’s calendar, planning events, and handling media relations. In her spare time, Marisol enjoys painting with acrylics.

Inside the Black Box of Regional Development – Human Capital, the Creative Class and Tolerance, a joint paper by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Kevin Stolarick, has been published in the Journal of Economic Geography.

The Martin Prosperity Institute is excited to welcome our first postdoctoral researchers, Dr. Katherine Richardson and Dr. Karen King. Dr. Richardson joins us from the University of British Columbia where she completed her PhD in Urban Economics. Her research specializes in the migratory patterns of the creative class. Dr. King joins us from McMaster University, where she completed her PhD in Geography. Before attending McMaster, Dr. King received her MA in Economics from the University of Toronto. Her research interests include migration, immigration and aging.

We have expanded our presence on the web from the Rotman site to the stand-alone website you are viewing right now. Expect frequent updates and improvements to this site. It is a key part of our strategy for sharing our work with the world. If you notice any technical problems, we encourage you to tell us.

Scott Pennington has joined the Institute after finishing his M.Sc.Pl. at the University of Toronto’s Department of Geography and Planning. Scott’s research focuses on the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in regional economic development.

The Experience the Creative Economy conference kicks off at the MPI headquarters in Toronto’s MaRS Centre. The conference brings together twenty-two leading researchers of the creative economy for three days of discussion, debate, and networking.

The psychologist and contributor to Who’s Your City is in Toronto to attend the Thinking about Thinking conference and meet with MPI staff members.

MPI Executive Assistant Kimberly Ryan completes the Ottawa Half Marathon in a time of 2 hours and 7 minutes.

James Milway is appointed the Executive Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute. Jim brings more than thirty years of business and public policy experience to the Institute. He will continue to serve as Executive Director of the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity, an independent think tank with a mandate to measure and monitor Ontario and Canada’s competitiveness and prosperity.

The MPI’s newest staff member, David R. Smith, has been hired to manage the year-long Ontario in the Creative Age project.

In the 2008 Ontario budget, the Martin Prosperity Institute has been tasked with producing a report on the future prosperity of the province. The project, dubbed Ontario in the Creative Age, is set to deliver a final report in February 2009.

Mayor of Toronto David Miller and members of the Mayor’s Economic Competitiveness Advisory Committee today unveiled the Agenda for Prosperity, a report that presents an achievable vision for growing the city’s long-term prosperity.

Our new issue of Insights, Economic Pain Not Spread Equally, examines how changes in unemployment affect different categories of jobs. The research is part of our Ontario in the Creative Age project for the province of Ontario.

The Monieson Centre at Queen’s University begins its 2010 winter seminar series in January. The series will focus on Ontario in the Creative Age, exploring how rural businesses and communities need not get left behind as businesses rely less on physical labour and routinized tasks, and compete increasingly using talent and technology.

Seminars:

January 26, 2010
The creative economy – fact and fiction
Dr. Betsy Donald, Queen’s University

February 16, 2010
The rural creative economy: Issues and challenges
Dr. Kevin Stolarick, Martin Prosperity Institute

March 23, 2010
The creative economy In Ontario: A Prince Edward County case example
Dan Taylor, Prince Edward County Economic Development
Greg Spencer, Munk Centre

April, 27, 2010
The creative economy: Rural policy implications
Ann-Marie Kelleher, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Professor Jennifer Massey, Queen’s University

May 25, 2010
The rural creative economy: Agenda for research
Dr. Yolande Chan, Queen’s School of Business
Craig Desjardins, Prince Edward/Lennox & Addington CFDC

March 2-3, 2010
MaRS Centre, Toronto

Discuss. Learn. Connect.

Join cultural planning practitioners from across Ontario for an informative workshop on cultural planning and mapping. Presentations on Creative City Network of Canada’s cultural planning and mapping toolkits, panel discussions from those in the field and a facilitated discussion on what’s next will give you the knowledge and connections to move the cultural planning agenda forward in your community.

Learn more…

The Martin Prosperity Institute’s Dr. Kevin Stolarick is presenting a seminar on ‘The rural creative economy: Issues and challenges’ as part of the Creative Economy Seminars at Queen’s University.

The seminar will take place on February 16, 2010 from 12 – 1 pm.

Experience the Creative Economy is a unique conference which allows scholars new in their careers to experience notions of the creative economy in a small and focused setting. This conference will bring together up to 25 individuals with similar research interests to share their work, receive feedback, foster the development of effective research methods and to establish an ongoing framework of collaborative learning and mutual exchange for years to come. Learn more about the conference, and how to apply to attend.

Dan Taylor (Prince Edward County Economic Development)and Dr. Greg Spencer(Munk Centre, University of Toronto) will present ‘The creative economy in Ontario: A Prince Edward County case example’ as the next installment of the Creative Economy Seminar Series at Queen’s University.

The seminar will take place on Tuesday March 23 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM in Room 304, Goodes Hall.

The Martin Prosperity Institute’s sister institute, The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity, is pleased to announce the release of Working Paper 13 on management strength in the retail sector on April 8, 2010 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at The Rotman School of Management.

The Working Paper features recent research done by the Institute on the strength of management in Canada’s and Ontario’s retail sector.The Working Paper follows the Institute’s work on Canada and Ontario’s manufacturing sector, presented in Working Paper 12, Management matters.

There is no charge for this event, but space is limited. Registration is required.

The Martin Prosperity Institute’s sister institute, The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity, is pleased to announce two panelists who will be joining Roger Martin at the release of our Working Paper on the strength of retail management in Ontario and Canada:

Dene Rogers, President & CEO of Sears Canada Inc.

David Soberman, Marketing Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

The Working Paper features new research on the quality of retail in management in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

The release of the Working Paper by Roger Martin and the panelists’ discussion will take place at The Rotman School of Management, Fleck Atrium, 105 St. George Street, 8:00 am to 10:00 am on Thursday, April 8, 2010.

There is no charge for this event, but space is limited. Registration is required.

The University of Toronto’s 14th Annual Friends of Planning Spring Social will be held on Thursday April 15th from 7-9 pm in the Hart House Great Hall.

Join The Honourable David Peterson, Chancellor of the University of Toronto and Chair of
the Successful Pan-Am Games 2015 Toronto Bid Committee, for a discussion of how
Toronto’s moment has finally arrived as an international event host city. Winning the Games
is a transformative victory for the Greater Toronto Area that will result in the acceleration
of planned developments and infrastructure such as the West Don Lands “Pan American
Village”, and will leave a legacy of six premiere sport facilities across the region.

The Canadian Urban Institute and the Cities Centre, University of Toronto, present:

Designing the City of Tomorrow — Are We Thinking Boldly Enough?

Thursday, April 15, 2010
7:45 – 9:45 a.m.
Innis Town Hall (U of T)
2 Sussex Ave.
Toronto, ON

This latest session from the Election Issues Series is presented by The Canadian Urban Institute and the Cities Centre, University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Council for Canadian Urbanism, the Design Industry Advisory Committee and the Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto.

Kevin Stolarick, research director of The Martin Prosperity Institute, will speak at the Model D Speaker Series May 12 at the Westin Book Cadillac in downtown Detroit. The discussion is on higher education’s role in city building.

The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity releases its annual Report on Canada on Tuesday, June 8 from 8:00 a.m. to noon in Toronto.

For more information or to register click here

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 will have a regular 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