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Vital City | ‘We Need to Make More New Yorks’: A Conversation With Richard Florida

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Richard Florida has been studying and writing about cities for nearly four decades. He is best known for articulating the theory that urban economic development hinges on concentrations of artists, tech workers and other “high bohemian” members of the educated “creative class” — articulated in his best-selling 2002 book, “The Rise of the Creative Class.” That theory had many critics. Indeed, Florida has since reconsidered his work and broadened his focus, thinking more intentionally about the interactions between members of the creative class and residents that tend to be less educated and have lower incomes. In 2010, he published “The Great Reset: How New Ways of Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity”; in 2014, “The Rise of the Creative Class — Revisited”; and in 2017, “The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation and Failing the Middle Class — and What We Can Do About It.” Of late, he has been a prominent critic of the “doom loop” theory, writin

The author of ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’ makes the case for family-friendly cities. Richard Florida has been studying and writing about cities for nearly four decades. He is best known for articulating the theory that urban economic development hinges on concentrations of artists, tech workers and other "high bohemian" members of the educated "creative class" — articulated in his best-selling 2002 book, "The Rise of the Creative Class." That theory had many critics . Indeed, Florida has since reconsidered his work and broadened his focus, thinking more intentionally about the interaction

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