Richard Florida
Richard Florida is Co-Founder and Editor at Large at The Atlantic Cities. He's also a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, and Global Research Professor at New York University. He is a frequent speaker to communities, business and professional organizations, and founder of the Creative Class Group, whose current client list can be found here.
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Is San Francisco Really America's Next Title Town?
Despite the success of this season, the city has a ways to go before joining the superstar ranks of Boston or Green Bay.
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Charts
More Losers Than Winners in America's New Economic Geography
It appears that talent clustering provides little in the way of trickle-down benefits to service and blue-collar workers.
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Maps
Class-Divided Cities: Los Angeles Edition
The second in our series mapping the growing class divides in American cities and metros.
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Maps
Class-Divided Cities: New York Edition
Examining America's dramatic socio-economic residential segregation.
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Maps
Gun Violence in U.S. Cities Compared to the Deadliest Nations in the World
New Orleans is like Honduras, Detroit is similar to El Salvador.
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Does Human Capital Tend to Cluster in Center Cities or the Suburbs?
According to new research, where college-educated folks live has a lot to do with population size.
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A Growing Divide in Urban Gun Violence
Homicides were down dramatically in some U.S. cities in 2012, but up in others.
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Next Great Idea
Toward the Walkable City
Urban planner Jeff Speck chats with Cities about his latest book.
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Football's Most Fanatical Cities
How do pro fans stack up against those who favor the college game on a city-by-city basis?
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Maps
Mapping Brooklyn's Spiky Gentrification
Property values have soared in some neighborhoods. But other parts of the borough have been largely excluded from the boom.
