Sentences with phrase «own creative class»

Of Detroit and its burgeoning creative class, he says, «The last thing in the world you want to do is discourage the bottom - up stuff.

Don Tapscott's warnings about the «peril and promise» of the Internet era go back to the 1990s, and urban theorist Richard Florida of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto argues the survival of every North American city depends on attracting a «creative class» of artists and thinkers.

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»

Co-founded by a pre-Loblaw Galen Weston Jr., the Spoke was actually modelled on Soho House as a low - key hub for Toronto's creative class.

Binelli is suspicious, too, of the Richard Florida — inspired calls to turn America's industrial heartland into a metropolis of «creative class» artists, tech entrepreneurs and tattooed baristas.

Chesky, however, sees a bright future for people like the cheerful sommelier and other members of the creative class.

At a recent event held at Uber, design partner John Maeda presented his «Design in Tech» report and convened designers to discuss the role of the creative class in Silicon Valley.

Plus, there's a budding creative class, and I love sweet tea and barbecue.»

For a good brief sense of Florida's views on Ontario's creative class service economy, see Ontario in the Creative Age (Martin Prosperity Institute, 2009), the report that he and Roger Martin wrote.

This boom includes Richard Florida's people: the young, digitized, multilingual creative class workers who populate the condos sprouting on Lake Ontario's edge, drawn from other parts of the city and the rest of the province and country to where economic and educational opportunity beckons.3

Best - selling author and urban development expert Richard Florida says it has the greatest concentration of the «creative class» — scientists, artists, engineers, and the like — in the U.S.

An office utopia designed for millennials — at first mostly freelancers trying to escape their apartments, but now also small businesses and corporations trying to lure the creative class — WeWork was, until recently, valued at $ 5 billion.

The creative class is transforming our economy, and we, in turn, must transform our cities into centres of creativity.

Tokyo Smoke wasn't to be a Bob Marley - inspired head shop, or one of the many illegal dispensaries, but instead a home to the creative class.

Many of you are likely familiar with Richard Florida's «creative class.»

Back in 2005 in my book Flight of the Creative Class, I warned that there were only two things that could derail America's high - powered innovative economy.

-- Rana Florida is CEO of Creative Class Group, and author of Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary.

They are members of the «creative class», adept at creating compelling content where companies and brands often fall short.

People flock to New York from all over the globe for work opportunities, the city is one of the strongest global locations for business growth and talent acquisition, there's a huge creative class, and property, both residential and commercial, are in high - demand.

It's been called the Gig Economy, Freelance Nation, the Rise of the Creative Class, and the e-conomy, with the «e» standing for electronic, entrepreneurial, or perhaps eclectic.

Located in historic Over the Rhine, Union Hall is Cincinnati's premier workspace for disruptors and the creative class.

Since the early days of Colorado Springs, there has been an outstanding creative class here, and in the early part of the 20th century we had even cultivated quite a reputation as an art colony.

In his book, The Rise of Creative Class, Richard Florida says that fewer than 10 percent of Americans were doing creative work at the turn of the 20th century.

The mother who raises (rather than aborts) a Down syndrome child is falsely made equivalent «in other contexts, with creativity» (not by Moran, but by the self - defined creative class).

New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Berlin, Hong Kong — does it really matter as long as you have companions in the «creative class» who share your «values»?

The creative class, those obsessed with trends and aesthetic, the ones posting Instagram photos of their grain bowls and standing in line for an Impossible Burgers, weren't engaged in the conversation.

Cant wait till next season when Ramsey is playing 10 and the creative class of ozil will be well and truely missed and maybe just then we will appreicate what he has done for us

The Gunners will avoid losing Sanchez for nothing this summer when his contract is set to expire, while Mkhitaryan has struggled for form at Old Trafford this season and his creative class and technical quality arguably makes him a perfect fit for the Emirates.

Given Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Mesut Ozil will also be knocking on the door for a place in the starting line - up to provide the creative class behind the main striker, it remains to be seen what system Wenger goes with.

Wenger though has defended Sanchez's decision to leave, while he is evidently looking forward to working with his latest recruit and believes he will fit in perfectly, which is a fair statement given the creative class and technical quality that the Armenian international possesses.

Ozil has racked up 203 assists in 526 games as a professional, with 51 coming in 135 Premier League games as he has consistently been a source of creative class for Arsenal in the final third since he joined the club from Real Madrid in 2013.

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«We believe the Williamsburg neighborhood offers Amazon the ultimate value proposition; it's where brands from around the globe come to innovate and it's where New York's creative class lives and plays,» he wrote in a statement.

Creative class guru Richard Florida is guest blogging in Andrew Sullivan's space this week.

Craft creative class sequences, treat your students to confident hands - on assists, and give effective and efficient verbal cues

The Silverlake neighborhood in Los Angeles (where the first studio is located) was in need of this and it really spoke to the creative class.

The Creative Class explores the personal and professional stories of leading creatives from across the fashion industry.

China's creative class will have greater global impact when its fashion ecosystem improves and when leaders invest more in mentoring and educational opportunities, argues Andrew Keith.

Their success is helping to build a creative class of graphic designers, stylists, retail architects, photographers, art directors, digital creatives and more, creating a ripple effect in adjacent industries.

The Creative Class Anaita Shroff Adajania, Fashion Director and Bollywood Stylist BoF speaks to Anaita Shroff Adajania, the stylist behind the current Vogue India cover featuring Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, about her career trajectory and the inner workings of fashion and film in India.

Support, encourage, and FUND the emerging creative class.

Echotone (Unrated) Cultural portrait of Austin, Texas as painted by members of the city's creative class, struggling musicians balancing artistic integrity against the idea of making concessions to the demands of commercialism.

To the extent that these assignments can subsidize and thus stimulate more productive work by the creative class, I'm happy that people were paid both to make and to review Shrek 4.

In his book The Rise of the Creative Class (2012), economist Richard Florida defines a growing group of people finding success in jobs that require them to «create new ideas, new technology and / or creative content.»

Rather than attend this event, Arthur has seized on an array of invitations to small - time literary jobs — interviewing another author, attending an awards ceremony, teaching a creative class for a number of weeks, even being a food critic — that will take him across the US and the world.

On Tuesday (March 8) in New York City, the gathered assembly at FW's Digital Book World will take its seats as part of that creative class.

Most public libraries are on the smaller side, most of them well inland, and their local demographics may differ considerably from ocean - side metropolises with large creative classes such as Boston or New York City.

I suggested # 1 (creative class and management) and believe part of # 2 and # 3 are also going on.

Just because we have a more widespread creative class doesn't mean that they're not subject to perfect or mostly perfect competition.

Entrepreneurs and the creative class have moved into Alcântara in recent years, which is now a mix of modern, working class, and up - and - coming trendy.