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The Rise of the Creative Class And How Its Transforming Work Leisure Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida - In My Top 10 Books
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And
How Its Transforming Work, Leisure,
Community and Everyday Life by
Richard Florida
In My Top 10 Books
The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award Winner The
Rise of the Creative Class gives...
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And
How Its Transforming Work, Leisure,
Community and Everyday Life by
Richard Florida
In My Top 10 Books
The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award Winner The
Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about
why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed.
Weaving
storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida
traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly
unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in our
economy.
Just as William Whytes 1956 classic The Organization Man
showed how the organizational ethos of that age permeated every aspect
of life, Florida describes a society in which the creative ethos is
increasingly dominant.
Millions of us are beginning to work and live much
as creative types like artists and scientists always have-with the result that
our values and tastes, our personal relationships, our choices of where to
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