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A review by moosegurl
Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida
3.0
"With his classic pin factory example, in which he illustrated how ten workers each specializing in his own task can produce a far greater number of pins than could ten workers working independently, Smith captured how firms need specialization to become more efficient."
"... a doubling of population resulted in more than two times the creative and economic output. Unlike biological organisms, all of which slow down as they grow larger, cities become wealthier and more creative the bigger they get. "
"What the mobile understand is that the pursuit of economic opportunity often requires them to move."
"What matters most today isn't where most people settle, but where the greatest number of the most skilled people locate. ... The most successful cities and regions in the United States and around the world may increasingly be inhabited by a core of wealthy and highly mobile workers leading highly privileged lives, catered to by an underclass of service workers living farther and farther away."
"Many people presume that wealth generates and sustains arts and entertainment, not the other way around. But what if arts and entertainment occupations actually contribute to regional wealth as well?"
"The place we live in is more important to our happiness than education or even how much we earn."
"We can, if we choose, recreate our identities based on the things that matter to us: work, lifestyle, personal interests, or activities. It might not be conscious, but we seek out places that fit our psychological needs in order to establish ownership over our lives."
"... a doubling of population resulted in more than two times the creative and economic output. Unlike biological organisms, all of which slow down as they grow larger, cities become wealthier and more creative the bigger they get. "
"What the mobile understand is that the pursuit of economic opportunity often requires them to move."
"What matters most today isn't where most people settle, but where the greatest number of the most skilled people locate. ... The most successful cities and regions in the United States and around the world may increasingly be inhabited by a core of wealthy and highly mobile workers leading highly privileged lives, catered to by an underclass of service workers living farther and farther away."
"Many people presume that wealth generates and sustains arts and entertainment, not the other way around. But what if arts and entertainment occupations actually contribute to regional wealth as well?"
"The place we live in is more important to our happiness than education or even how much we earn."
"We can, if we choose, recreate our identities based on the things that matter to us: work, lifestyle, personal interests, or activities. It might not be conscious, but we seek out places that fit our psychological needs in order to establish ownership over our lives."