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Richard L. Florida (born 1957) is an American urban studies theorist focusing on social and economic theory. He is a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a Distinguished Fellow at NYU's School of Professional Studies. Florida taught at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College in Pittsburgh from 1987 to 2005, before moving to George Mason University's School of Public Policy, where he taught for two years. He was named a Senior Editor at The Atlantic in March 2011 after serving as a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com for a year. Early life and education Florida was born in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1979 with a B.A. in political science. He then attended Columbia University, where he studied urban planning (M.Phil. in 1984 and Ph.D. in 1986). Research and theories Florida's early work focused on innovation by manufacturers, including the continuous-improvement systems implemented by such automakers as Toyota. Creative class Florida is best known for his concept of the creative class and its implications for urban regeneration. This idea was expressed in Florida's best-selling books The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), Cities and the Creative Class, and The Flight of the Creative Class, and later published a book focusing on the issues surrounding urban renewal and talent migration, titled Who's Your City? Florida's theory asserts that metropolitan regions with high concentrations of technology workers, artists, musicians, lesbians and gay men, and a group he describes as "high bohemians", exhibit a higher level of economic development. Florida refers to these groups collectively as the "creative class." He posits that the creative class fosters an open, dynamic, personal, and professional urban environment. This environment, in turn, attracts more creative people, as well as businesses and capital. He suggests that attracting and retaining high-quality talent versus a singular focus on projects such as sports stadiums, iconic buildings, and shopping centers, would be a better primary use of a city's regeneration of resources for long-term prosperity. He has devised his own ranking systems that rate cities by a "Bohemian index," a "Gay index," a "diversity index", and similar criteria. In 2004, following the rise of Google, the gurus of Web 2.0, and the call from business leaders (often seen in publications such as Business 2.0) for a more creative, as well as skilled, workforce, Florida asserted that the contemporary relevance of his research is easy to see. One author characterizes him as an influence on radical centrist political thought. Reception and criticism Florida's ideas have been criticized from a variety of political perspectives and by both academics and journalists. His theories have been criticized as being elitist, and his conclusions have been questioned. Researchers have also criticized Florida's work for its methodology. Terry Nichols Clark of the University of Chicago used Florida's own data to question the correlation between the presence of significant numbers of gay men in a city and the presence of high-technology knowledge industries. Harvard economist Edward Glaeser analyzed Florida's data and concluded that educational levels, rather than the presence of bohemians or gay people, is correlated with metropolitan economic development. Other critics have said that the conditions it describes may no longer exist, and that his theories may be better suited to politics, rather than economics. Florida has gone on to directly reply to a number of these objections. Some scholars have voiced concern over Florida's influence on urban planners throughout the United States. A 2010 book, Weird City, examines Florida's influence on planning policy in Austin, Texas. The main body of the book treats Florida's creative class theory in an introductory and neutral tone, but in a theoretical "postscript" chapter, the author criticizes what he describes as Florida's tendency to "whitewash" the negative externalities associated with creative city development. Thomas Frank criticizes Florida's "creative class" formulation as one of "several flattering ways of describing the professional cohort," this particular one being "the most obsequious designation of them all." Frank places the creative class within a broader critique of the Democratic Party: "Let us be clear about the political views Florida was expounding here. The problem with, say, George W. Bush's administration was not that it favored the rich; it was that it favored the wrong rich—the 'old-economy' rich.... Florida wept for unfairly ignored industries, but he expressed little sympathy for the working people whose issues were now ignored by both parties." Personal life Florida lives in Toronto and Miami and is married to Rana Florida. Publications The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It, 2017. Basic. ISBN 0465079741. The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, 2010. New York: HarperCollins. Who's Your City?, 2008. ISBN 0-465-00352-4. The Flight of the Creative Class. The New Global Competition for Talent, 2005. HarperBusiness, HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-075691-8. Cities and the Creative Class, 2005. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-94887-8. The Rise of the Creative Class. And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure and Everyday Life, 2002. Basic. ISBN 0-465-02477-7. Branscomb, Lewis & Kodama, Fumio & Florida, Richard (1999). Industrializing Knowledge: University-Industry Linkages in Japan and the United States. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-02465-9. Kenney, Martin & Florida, Richard (1993). Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the US. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507110-7. Florida, Richard (1990). The Breakthrough Illusion. Corporate America's Failure to Move from Innovation to Mass Production. Basic. ISBN 0-465-00760-0. References Further reading Florida, Richard (March 2009). "How the Crash Will Reshape America". The Atlantic. ISSN 1072-7825. Wainwright, Oliver (October 26, 2017). "'Everything is gentrification now': but Richard Florida isn't sorry". The Guardian. External links Richard Florida on Twitter Appearances on C-SPAN Curriculum vitae original. Discover the Richard Florida popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Richard Florida books.
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State Florida Ex Rel. Richard W. Ervin v. Sherman N. Smith
Supreme Court of FloridaOn February 20, 1962, Robert L. Hooper was adjudged guilty of the crime of robbery. He was sentenced to a term in the State penitentiary. On May 22, 1962, 91 days after the convict...
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Richard E. Smith v. State Florida
Second District Court of Appeal of FloridaLillian Reis was arrested in Miami Beach, Florida in 1965. After a nonjury trial she was found guilty and adjudicated for unlawful possession of narcotic drugs. After a jury trial ...
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Richard Walcott v. State Florida
Court of Appeal of FloridaRobert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Don M. Rogers, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
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State Florida v. Richard Strong
Supreme Court of FloridaOVERTON, J. This is a petition to review Strong v. State, 465 So.2d 549 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985), in which the district court reversed defendant's manslaughter convictions, holding the a...
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Richard L. Lewis v. Florida State Board Health
First District. District Court of Appeal of FloridaThe defendants below appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff, a minor, entered pursuant to a directed verdict in this negligence action for personal injuries suffered by plaintiff...
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Harold Richard Keur v. State Florida
Second District Court of Appeal of FloridaOn October 12, 1961, informations were filed charging Keur with grand larceny and embezzlement. On the same day, the defendant appeared before the court without benefit of counsel,...
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Richard Schulze v. State Florida
Court of Appeal of FloridaBefore: ANSTEAD, DELL and GUNTHER, JJ., concur. Per Curiam.
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Memory and Desire
Philip CaputoFrom the acclaimed storyteller, a propulsive tale of desire, betrayal, duty, and infidelityand the explosive consequences of a buried passion The newsman in Luke Blackburn shuns th...
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For Adults Only v. State Florida Ex Rel. Richard E. Gerstein
Third District. District Court of Appeal of FloridaBefore SWANN, C.J., and PEARSON and HENDRY, JJ. SWANN, Chief Judge.
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The New Urban Crisis
Richard FloridaIn recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida ar...
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Florida Bar v. Richard G. Doggett
Supreme Court of FloridaThe uncontested report of the referee is approved and respondent is suspended for one (1) year effective thirty (30) days from the filing of this order so that Respondent can close...
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Florida Bar v. Richard Andrew Henry
Supreme Court of FloridaThe uncontested report of the referee is approved and respondent is suspended for ten (10) days effective thirty (30) days from the filing of this order so that Respondent can clos...
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At First Light
Vanessa LafayeMeet Alicia Cortez: survivor, healer...murderer?1993, Key West, Florida. When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun: a 96ye...
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Jurassic Florida
Hunter SheaFLORIDA. IT’S WHERE YOU GO TO DIE.Welcome to Polo Springs, a sleepy little town on Florida’s Gulf Coast. It’s a great place to liveif you don’t mind the hurricanes. Or the flooding...
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State Florida v. Richard Del Gaudio
Third District. District Court of Appeal of FloridaThe question presented by the States appeal is whether dismissal of criminal charges is a permissible sanction under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.220 where the State has be...
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The Rise of the Creative Class
Richard FloridaWorldrenowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twentyfirst century now updated with a new prefaceIn his modern classic The...
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Richard Samuel Kersey v. State Florida
First District. District Court of Appeal of FloridaThe plaintiffappellants amended complaint in chancery was in two counts. Pursuant to motions of the several defendants, appellees here, the Chancellor entered an order dismissing C...
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Richard David Doerr v. State Florida
Second District Court of Appeal of FloridaAppellant R. A. Jones & Sons, Inc. (Jones), a designer and seller of irrigation systems for farm use, bought twentythree industrial engines manufactured by Ford Motor Company (...
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Jack C. Richardson v. State Florida Ex Rel. Richard Douglas Milton
Third District. District Court of Appeal of FloridaThis is an original proceeding in mandamus wherein petitioner seeks to compel respondents to refund $72,270.84, paid to the State in sales tax on the sale of food from vending mach...
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Richard Long Carlton v. State Florida
Supreme Court of FloridaAppellee Bradley moved this court to strike the initial brief of appellant, contending that the brief contained references to matters not properly part of the record in this appeal...
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Richard A. Newton v. South Florida Baptist Hospital and Paul K. Perry
Second District Court of Appeal of FloridaRYDER, Acting Chief Judge. Richard A. Newton attacks the judgment entered in favor of South Florida Baptist Hospital and Paul K. Perry, M.D. on Newton's claim for the wr...
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Generation Oxy
Douglas Dodd & Matthew CoxGeneration Oxy is the story of a group of friendsclean cut, allAmerican high school kidswho stumbled into the Sunshine State’s murky underworld of illegal pill mills and corrupt do...
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Richard Earl Shere v. State Florida
Supreme Court of FloridaThe victim, Drew Snyder, was reported missing in December 1987, and the ensuing investigation led to Shere, whom police contacted three weeks after Snyders disappearance. Shere wai...
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Richard H. Pritchett v. Florida Real Estate Commission
Second District Court of Appeal of FloridaThis interlocutory appeal seeks review of an order entered by the Circuit Court of Volusia County, in chancery, setting aside a decree pro confesso and summary final decree of fore...
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Lewis Richard Killen v. State Florida
Special Division A. Supreme Court of FloridaAppellant, Lewis Richard Killen, and one Charles William Lawrence were indicted jointly for the offense of murder in the first degree for the killing of one William Simpson by shoo...
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Florida Bar v. Richard W. Smith
Supreme Court of FloridaThe uncontested report of the referee is approved and respondent is suspended for ninety (90) days effective thirty (30) days from the filing of this order so that Respondent can c...
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Richard Dreger v. State Florida
Third District. District Court of Appeal of FloridaBefore PEARSON, C.J., and BARKDULL and SWANN, JJ. Per Curiam.
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State Florida v. Richard Byron Detlefson
First District. District Court of Appeal of FloridaThe State appeals from an order suppressing drugs and drug paraphernalia seized pursuant to a warrant held insufficient by Fourth Amendment standards. We reverse. The affidavit on ...
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The Vampire Killers
Clifford L. LinedeckerWhen eighteenyearold Jennifer Wendorf returned home one evening, she was witness to the most horrific scene she would ever set eyes upon: her own parents' brutally bludgeoned bodie...
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Richard D. Kiper and Central Florida Greyhound College v. State Florida
First District. District Court of Appeal of FloridaBOYER, Judge. The State of Florida, by and through the State Attorney for the Fifth Judicial Circuit, filed a complaint in the Circuit Court seeking to enjoin appellants from conti...
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Richard Haisfield v. Acp Florida Holdings
Court of Appeal of FloridaAppellants, RICHARD HAISFIELD, et al., referred to herein as HAISFIELD, challenge a final judgment entered by the trial court in favor of the Appellees, ACP FLORIDA HOLDINGS, INC.,...
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The Angel on the Roof
Russell Banks"At his shattering best. . . Banks offers answers that are tough, honest, and inevitable without being simple. . . . A book that is not to be missed." New York TimesWith The Angel ...
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Richard D. Fiske v. State Florida
Supreme Court of FloridaThis is a direct appeal from a felony conviction in Collier County Circuit Court. The court directly passed on the validity of a state statute's application. We have jurisdiction....
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State Florida v. Richard Dingle
Supreme Court of FloridaThis cause having heretofore been submitted to the Court on jurisdictional briefs and portions of the record deemed necessary to reflect jurisdiction under Article V, Section 3(b),...
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Richard William Machara and Gary John Meister v. State Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal of FloridaPer Curiam. Defendants were convicted and sentenced for third degree arson and now bring this consolidated appeal. We reverse.
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Richard Earl Walker v. State Florida
Supreme Court of FloridaGRIMES, J. We have for review Walker v. State, 585 So.2d 1107 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991), because of direct conflict with Kirtsey v. State, 511 So.2d 744 (Fla. 5th DCA 1987). We...
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Florida Bar v. Richard William Barber
Supreme Court of FloridaThe uncontested petition to resign in lieu of disciplinary proceedings, with leave to seek readmission after five (5) years, is granted effective thirty (30) days from the filing o...
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Richard Earl Walker v. State Florida
Supreme Court of FloridaOrder ACCEPTING JURISDICTION AND DISPENSING WITH ORAL ARGUMENT The Court has accepted jurisdiction and dispensed with oral argument pursuant to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure ...
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Richard Barry Randolph v. State Florida
Supreme Court of FloridaValentine appeals his convictions for firstdegree murder, attempted firstdegree murder, two counts of kidnapping, grand theft, and burglary, and his sentence of death. We have juri...
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Herbert May v. State Florida Ex Rel. Richard W. Ervin
Supreme Court of FloridaDREW, Justrice. On March 1, 1957, the petitioner here, the defendant below, moved, pursuant to Sec. 45.19, F.S.A., to dismiss this cause because no action had been taken...
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Florida Hotel and Restaurant Commission and Richard Edgerton v. Marseilles Hotel Co.
Supreme Court of FloridaWe here review on certiorari an order of the lower court denying a motion to dismiss a complaint for a declaratory decree and injunctive relief filed in the lower court by the Mars...
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Richard A. Newton v. South Florida Baptist Hospital
Supreme Court of FloridaThis cause having heretofore been submitted to the Court on jurisdictional briefs and portions of the record deemed necessary to reflect jurisdiction under Article V, Section 3(b),...
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Florida Hotel and Restaurant Commission and Richard Edgerton v. Marseilles Hotel Co.
Supreme Court of FloridaROBERTS, Justice. We here review on certiorari an order of the lower court denying a motion to dismiss a complaint for a declaratory decree and injunctive relief filed i...
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Robert Richard Yost v. State Florida
Third District. District Court of Appeal of FloridaDefendant appeals the convictions and sentences entered pursuant to jury verdicts of guilty of narcotics violations. He was found guilty of two counts of unlawful sale of marijuana...
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Richard M. Cooper v. State Florida
Supreme Court of FloridaAppellant, Richard Michael Cooper, appeals his convictions of three counts of firstdegree murder and sentences of death on each count. We have jurisdiction under article V, section...
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Top Gear Drives of a Lifetime
Dan ReadEvery year, Top Gear dispatches correspondents to cover many serious stories around the world. Wherever they go, they ask tough questions and leave no stone unturned in search of t...