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Richard Florida

Richard Florida

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
83
Citations
95001
World Ranking
293
National Ranking
18

Overview

Richard Florida is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences, particularly focusing on economics, econometrics, and finance. Florida's work integrates perspectives from sociology and political science, with notable activity in the subfields of economics and econometrics, urban studies, global and planetary change, and marketing.

The core topics of Florida's research include regional economics and spatial analysis, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, and cultural industries and urban development. Other significant areas of study are regional resilience and development, land use and ecosystem services, urban design and spatial analysis, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Among recent scholarly contributions, Florida has authored the following papers:

  • Critical Commentary: Cities in a post-COVID world (2021, Urban Studies)
  • Discontent and its geographies (2021, Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society)

While some of the listed recent papers in the broader research area include works by frequent co-authors, Richard Florida is directly credited on the above papers. The research venues in which Florida publishes or co-publishes often include:

  • Regional Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Urban Studies
  • Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Florida frequently collaborates with several researchers, reflecting a networked approach to urban and regional studies. Notable co-authors include Charlotta Mellander, Patrick Adler, José Lobo, Marina Alberti, and Melissa Allen-Dumas.

The thematic scope of Florida's research indicates an emphasis on understanding the economic and social dynamics of cities and regions, particularly in relation to urban development, resilience, and the impacts of global phenomena such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best Publications

  • The Rise of the Creative Class

    Richard Florida

  • The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life

    Richard L. Florida

  • Cities and the Creative Class

    Richard L. Florida

  • The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent

    Richard L. Florida

  • Toward the Learning Region

    Richard Florida

  • The Geographic Sources of Innovation: Technological Infrastructure and Product Innovation in the United States

    Maryann P. Feldman;Richard Florida

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

    Richard L. Florida

  • The Economic Geography of Talent

    Richard Florida

  • Inside the black box of regional development— human capital, the creative class and tolerance

    Richard Florida;Charlotta Mellander;Kevin Stolarick

  • Creativity and Entrepreneurship: A Regional Analysis of New Firm Formation

    Sam Youl Lee;Richard Florida;Zoltán J. Ács;Zoltán J. Ács

  • Bohemia and economic geography

    Richard Florida

  • Lean and Green: The Move to Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing:

    Richard Florida

  • 도시와 창조계급 Cities and the Creative Class

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  • The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

    Richard L. Florida

  • The globalization of R&D: Results of a survey of foreign-affiliated R&D laboratories in the USA

    Richard Florida

  • Gaining from Green Management: Environmental Management Systems Inside and Outside the Factory

    Richard Florida;Derek Davison

  • Technology and Tolerance: The Importance of Diversity to High-Technology Growth

    Richard Florida

  • The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited

    Richard L. Florida

  • The rise of the mega-region

    Richard Florida;Tim Gulden;Charlotta Mellander

  • Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S.

    Martin Kenney;Richard L. Florida

  • Venture Capital, High Technology and Regional Development∗

    Richard L. Florida;Martin Kenney

Frequent Co-Authors

Meric S. Gertler
Meric S. Gertler University of Toronto
Peter J. Rentfrow
Peter J. Rentfrow University of Cambridge
Björn Asheim
Björn Asheim University of Stavanger
Jeff Potter
Jeff Potter Brown University
Marina Alberti
Marina Alberti University of Washington
Michael E. Smith
Michael E. Smith Arizona State University
Ruth Milkman
Ruth Milkman The Graduate Center, CUNY
Luís M. A. Bettencourt
Luís M. A. Bettencourt University of Chicago

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