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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
More specifically, Patience and Fortitude, the lions of the library!
Jeff Wrangler:
Well, here's a cheery thought from the June 27, issue, courtesy of someone called Richard Florida: The more gay-friendly a city is, the more it's likely to be economically successful. :D
For once I'm actually caught up in my New Yorkers, but that's because there was one issue that literally had only one article in it that interested me, the piece about Harriet Beecher Stowe, so I passed that issue on to my friend here at work quite quickly.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 23, 2011, 01:36:34 pm ---Well, here's a cheery thought from the June 27, issue, courtesy of someone called Richard Florida: The more gay-friendly a city is, the more it's likely to be economically successful. :D
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So now maybe NYC will make it after all! ;D
I've heard of Richard Florida. He's written a lot about the link between a city's economic success and the size of its creative class. And it stands to reason that more creative cities would be more gay-friendly, both as a cause and effect.
--- Quote ---For once I'm actually caught up in my New Yorkers, but that's because there was one issue that literally had only one article in it that interested me, the piece about Harriet Beecher Stowe, so I passed that issue on to my friend here at work quite quickly.
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I haven't seen the HBS article yet, but that sounds interesting. I've been reading short stories in the fiction issue.
Front-Ranger:
Yes, I've read his book The Rise of the Creative Class.
chowhound:
Richard Florida is an American who is currently living and teaching in Toronto:
ROTMAN NEWS
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Creative Class Thinker Joins Rotman School of Management
Toronto, July 16, 2007 -- A noted researcher, whose discovery of the “creative class” has been lauded by the Harvard Business Review as a major breakthrough idea, has joined the faculty of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Richard Florida will be a professor of business economics and the Academic Director of the newly established Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School.
Prof. Florida is well known for his work on economic competitiveness, demographic trends, and cultural and technological innovation. In the last five years, he has penned the international bestseller, The Rise of the Creative Class and also The Flight of the Creative Class, which launched an intellectual revolution that has changed the way companies, nations, and communities compete and thrive.
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