Who's Your City?

by Florida, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780465018093
• ISBN10: 0465018092
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-29
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Place is not only important, it's more important than ever. In fact, choosing a place to live is as important to our happiness as choosing a spouse or career. And some regions, recent surveys show, really are happier than others. In Who's Your City?, Creative Class guru Richard Florida reports on this growing body of research that tells us what qualities of cities and towns actually make people happy-and he explains how to use these ideas to make our own choices. Where we decide to live is a crucial decision in each of our lives, and Who's Your City? helps us to take full advantage of our range of choices. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Richard Florida is one of the world's leading public intellectuals, and was named one of the Best and Brightest by Esquire Magazine. He is a regular columnist for The Globe and Mail and author of the bestselling book The Rise of the Creative Class. He is the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and professor of Business and Creativity at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. He is founder of the Creative Class Group, located in Washington, DC, Toronto, Pittsburgh, and Europe. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Rana.

Table of Contents

The Question of Where	p. 1
Why Place Matters
Spiky World	p. 17
Rise of the Mega-Region	p. 41
The Clustering Force	p. 61
The Wealth of Place
The Mobile and the Rooted	p. 79
Where the Brains Are	p. 91
Job-Shift	p. 101
Superstar Cities	p. 127
The Geography of Happiness
Shiny Happy Places	p. 147
Beyond Maslow's City	p. 161
Cities Have Personalities, Too	p. 187
Where We Live Now
Three Big Moves	p. 217
The Young and the Restless	p. 223
Married with Children	p. 251
When the Kids Are Gone	p. 275
Place Yourself	p. 287
Acknowledgments	p. 307
Appendices	p. 311
Notes	p. 335
Index	p. 359
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