by Richard Florida · Basic Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780465024773
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«The Rise of the Creative Class» is Richard Florida's essay on sociology and economics, published by Basic Books in paperback, in English.
For Richard Florida, creativity is the engine of the contemporary American economy: a new social class of those who create to live reshapes work, leisure, and cities. Their values, tastes, and residential choices affect businesses and urban development, and diversity and tolerance drive growth.
It won the Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award. The edition has 434 pages, with bibliographic references and an index.
Recommended for readers interested in economics, urban sociology, and changes in the world of work.
Richard L. Florida is an American urban studies theorist and writer best known for his seminal description of the creative class. He focuses on economic and social theory as a distinguished professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and School of Cities. He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 1987 to 2004 before teaching at George Mason University from 2004 to 2007 and subsequently moving to the University of Toronto.
