Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

by Richard Florida

384 pages, Paperback

Published June 29, 2009

About the author

Richard Florida (born 1957 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American urban studies theorist.
Richard Florida's focus is on social and economic theory. He is currently a professor and head of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management, at the University of Toronto. He also heads a private consulting firm, the Creative Class Group.
Prof. Florida received a PhD from Columbia University in 1986. Prior to joining George Mason University's School of Public Policy, where he spent two years, he taught at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College in Pittsburgh from 1987 to 2005. He was named a Senior Editor at The Atlantic in March 2011 after serving as a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com for a year.

Reviews

[Kate Porter]

It's hard for me to give this book a star rating - I greatly enjoyed it, but it was published 15 years ago and there's a chance that a good amount of the information in it has changed, especially in the wake of covid-19. Regardless, the author is able to share a good amount of information in a way that feels conversational rather than lecturing. I've flipped through some of his other books before and I enjoy reading his work, so I am glad I picked this up. Now I want to look for updated versions of some of the charts in the appendices!