Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 304
Edition: Reprint
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: June 29, 2009
Publisher: Basic Books
Studio: Basic Books

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
International Bestseller

All places are not created equal.

In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives, one that fundamentally affects our professional and personal prospects. As well as explaining why place matters now more than ever, Who’s Your City? provides indispensable tools to help you choose the right place for you.

It’s a cliché of the information age that globalization has made place irrelevant, that one can telecommute as effectively from New Zealand as New York. But it’s not true, Richard Florida argues, relying on twenty years of innovative research in urban studies, creativity, and demographic trends. In fact, as new units of economic growth called mega-regions become increasingly specialized, the world is becoming more and more “spiky” — divided between flourishing clusters of talent, education and competitiveness, and moribund “valleys.”

All these places have personalities, Richard Florida explains in the second half of Who’s Your City?, and happiness depends on finding the city in which you can balance your personal and career goals to thrive. More people than ever before now have the opportunity to choose where to live, but at different points in our lives we need different kinds of places, he points out — what a couple of recent college graduates want from their city isn’t necessarily what a retiree is looking for. You have to find the place that suits you best: a boho-burb neighbourhood isn’t likely to be the best fit for patio man.

So, for the first time, Who’s Your City? ranks cities by their fitness for various life stages, rating the best places for singles, young families, and empty nesters. It summarizes the key factors that make place matter to different kinds of people, from professional opportunities to the closeness of family to how well it matches their lifestyle, and provides an in-depth series of steps to help you choose the right place wisely.

Sparkling with Richard Florida’s signature intellectual originality, Who’s Your City? moves from insights to studies to personal anecdotes, from a startling “Singles Map” of the United States to surprising data on the difference aesthetics makes to people’s sense of place. A perceptive and transformative book, it is both a brilliant exploration of the fundamental importance of place and an essential guide to making what may be the most important decision of your life.


From the Hardcover edition.




Rating: - an eye -opener
Without exaggeration, this is probably one of the most important books of this decade. Opens new perspectives on understanding contemporary life, multi-dimensional. A must for students in social sciences, economics, geography and history. Absolutely thrilling and written in clear, non-technical language, without scientific jargon, yet very deep and far-reaching! Top notch. Veery highly recommended!

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Rating: - review
Haven't had time to read it, but this is the only way to get Amazon to quit emailing me every few days nagging for a review.

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Rating: - Who is your city
My wife and I loved the book...We have both reread parts of it... We also recommend his earlier book -The flight of the Creative Class... I wish I had read this one first.. Both books helped us to make sense out of what we have seen happening over the last few decades....

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Rating: - Dispells the Myth of the Totally Flat World - Creative Regions Thrive
Great for understanding the intersection of demographics, geography and prosperity. His main premise is there are distinct economic corridors in the world. The main ones based on prosperity 1) Boston-NY-Washington-Phili 2)So-Cal (LA-SD) 3) Nor-Cal (silcon valley) 4)Toronto-Buf-Rochester and more. These are the big ones.

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Rating: - Limited view ruins book
I heard about this book and thought the concept sounded interesting but, to believe this book is to believe that the world is not interconnected and that your location on earth determines 90% of your fate.

I'd believe this somewhat

1. if the year was 1893 and we weren't a mouseclick from the rest of the world.

2. If people weren't the most powerful part of equation. They are what make one place or the other the happening place to be.

For example ... Read More

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