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Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
by Richard Florida
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0465003524
- ISBN 13
- 9780465003525
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Basic Books, March 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Shelfwear/edgwear on covers and spine on dust jacket and boards; tips of spine bumped; ink underlining in first half of book. Signed by author on title page. ; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.4 inches; 384 pages; Signed by Author
Synopsis
Richard Florida, Author, Who's Your City? and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Richard Florida is one of the world's leading public intellectuals. Esquire Magazine recently named him one of the 'Best and Brightest' in America. He is author of the national and international best-selling book, The Rise of the Creative Class , which received the Washington Monthly 's Political Book Award and was cited as a major breakthrough idea by the Harvard Business Review. His ideas have been featured in major ad campaigns and such as BMW and are being used globally to change the way regions, nations, and companies compete. He is founder of the Creative Class Group, an advisory services firm, charting new trends in business and community. Richard is a regular columnist with the Globe and Mail newspaper and has written articles for the Atlantic Monthly , the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , the Harvard Business Review , the Boston Globe and the Financial Times . His new book, Who's Your City? has been hailed a National Best-Seller, an International Best-Seller and Amazon Book of the Month. Richard has also been appointed to the Business Innovation Factory's Research Advisory Council and recently named European Ambassador for Creativity and Innovation. He is Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and Professor of Business and Creativity at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Previously, Florida held professorships at Carnegie Mellon University, a visiting professor at Harvard and MIT, and a visiting fellow of the Brookings Institution. Florida earned his Bachelor's degree from Rutgers College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
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- Title
- Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
- Author
- Richard Florida
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0465003524
- ISBN 13
- 9780465003525
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- March 2008
- Pages
- 384
- LCCN
- 2008000134
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