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Who's your city? : how the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life
Title:
Who's your city? : how the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life
Author:
Florida, Richard L.
ISBN:
9780465003525
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Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, c2008.
Physical Description:
viii, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents:
WHY PLACE MATTERS. Spiky world -- Rise of the mega-region -- The clustering force -- THE WEALTH OF PLACE. The mobile and the rooted -- Where the brains are -- Job-shift -- Superstar cities -- THE GEOGRAPHY OF HAPPINESS. Shiny happy places -- Beyond Maslow's city -- Cities have personalities, too -- WHERE WE LIVE NOW. Three big moves -- The young and the restless -- Married with children -- When the kids are gone -- Place yourself.
Abstract:
"Based on more than 20 years of research, Who's your city? shows how a new economic unit--the mega-region--is the real driver of the global economy, and explains why mega-regions are diverging not only in economic specialization but even in personality ... Florida provides detailed rankings of the best places to live for every major stage of life, for both gay and straight couples, for those on a budget and those luckily not."--Cover.
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