Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

摘要

Following the publication of his best-selling The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), Richard Florida needs no introduction to those with even a casual interest in cities, regional development, and urbanism. The reaction to that earlier book saw him lauded by some (not least many of those charged with city-making policy) and assailed by others-from both the left (elitist, promoting gentrification) and the right (undermining traditional values, advocating "big" government), which was no mean feat.