New Richard Florida Book: Cities and the Creative Class

is for studious fans of Richard Florida’s best-seller, . It is a collection of the research that lead to ‘Rise’, ‘in full empirical detail and analysis the key premises on which the argument of Rise are based’.
It is also a primer for the highly-anticipated sequel that is coming out on March 15, 2005, . Essentially, it explores the real situation we’re in of losing much of the creative class if we don’t build places and opportunities for them here in this country – and fast.