The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, And Everyday Life (2) (Art Of Mentoring Ser.)

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Synopsis
World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new prefaceIn his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of engineers and managers, academics and musicians, researchers, designers, entrepreneurs and lawyers, poets and programmer, whose work turns on the creation of new forms. Increasingly, Florida observes, this Creative Class determines how workplaces are organized, which companies prosper or go bankrupt, and which cities thrive, stagnate or decline.Florida offers a detailed occupational, demographic, psychological, and economic profile of the Creative Class, examines its global impact, and explores the factors that shape "quality of place" in our changing cities and suburbs. Now updated with a new preface that considers the latest developments in our changing cities, The Rise of the Creative Class is the definitive edition of this foundational book on our contemporary economy.
Copyright:
2002

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
512 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781541617735
Related ISBNs:
9781541617742
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Richard Florida
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
Reading Age:
16 and up
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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