{"product_id":"the-rise-of-the-creative-classrevisited-10th-anniversary-editionrevised-and-expanded","title":"The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: 10th Anniversary Edition--Revised and Expanded","description":"\u003cp\u003eTen years ago  Richard Florida published a path-breaking book about the forces that were reshaping our economy  our geography  our work  and our whole way of life. Weaving story-telling with reams of original research  he traced a fundamental theme through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity. In the decade since  we have endured a series of world shattering eventsfrom the collapse of the tech bubble to 9\/11 to the economic meltdown of 2008any one of which might have been sufficient to derail the forces he described Instead  the drive towards creativity as only intensified  both in the US and across the globe. In late 2011  the social media site LinkedIn reported that the word most used by its members to describe themselves was Creative. In this newly revised and expanded edition of his now classic book  Florida has brought all of its statistics up to date (and provided a host of new ones); further refined his occupational  demographic  psychological  and economic profile of the Creative Class; incorporated a decades worth of his own and his colleagues quantitative and qualitative research; and addressed his major critics. Five completely new chapters cover the global effects of the Creative Class and explore the integral features and factors that shape quality of place in our rapidly changing cities and suburbs. Florida delves into the roles played by technology  race  and poverty in perpetuating and exacerbating income inequality and the pervasive influence of class throughout every aspect of society. Throwing down the gauntlet  he proposes a dramatic new social compact for our timeone that can turn our emerging Creative Economy into an enduringly Creative Society. We currently inhabit a strange period of interregnum in which the old order has collapsed and the new order is not yet born  Florida writes. The old order has failed; attempts to bail it out  to breathe new life into it or to somehow prop it back up are doomed to historys dustbin. The key is not to limit or reverse the gains that the Creative Class has made but to extend them across the board  to build a more open  more diverse  more inclusive Creative Society that can more fully harness its membersall of its memberscapacities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946868043829,"sku":"ByrdShop_0465029930","price":25.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780465029938.jpg?v=1769969728","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-rise-of-the-creative-classrevisited-10th-anniversary-editionrevised-and-expanded","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}