Richard Florida, a well known consultant planner has a revised edition of his famous book titled “The Rise of the Creative Class.” Florida visited Wilkes-Barre quite a few years ago and provided ...

Richard Florida, always a fan of cities including Seattle, seems to be having some second thoughts. The 2002 publication of his book, “The Rise of the Creative Class,” turned a professor into as much ...

Over the past few years, Richard Florida has had some explaining to do. Through books and magazine cover stories, pricey speeches and consultations, the TED-talking University of Toronto professor ...

Few purveyors of big ideas have as much riding on a single notion or catch phrase as Richard Florida does with the “creative class.” Florida’s idea of a group of highly mobile, Mac-toting ...

Former Los Angeles Times arts reporter and Salon contributor Scott Timberg profiles a sector under assault in “Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class,” an expansive, provocative and at times ...