Sentences with phrase «urban studies theorist»

As far as peak car is concerned, Richard Florida, an urban studies theorist at the University of Toronto, Canada, suggests that smartphones, social media and internet shopping are substituting for travel, and so owning your own wheels has lost its social cachet for the young (see «Peak planet: Car usage «-RRB-.

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.»

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«Historically, a lot of these analyses have been done using not such a substantial quantitative basis,» says Stephen Marshall, an urban theorist at University College London (U.C.L.) who was not part of the study.