Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
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From the best-selling author of The Rise of the Creative Class, a brilliant new book on the surprising importance of place, with advice on how to find the right place for you Business Week - Michelle Conlin If you think working remotely means where you live-your place-doesn't matter anymore, Florida correctly shows us-with his trademark data and analysis-why you're dead wrong. The book is a superb treatise on the location paradox: the idea that as the world becomes more mobile, the more decisive location becomes...We learn why San Francisco is the best city for young singles; why Washington D.C. is the best place to raise kids; and why New York City is one of the top spots for retirees. Something to look forward to!
1 The Question of Where 1Part I Why Place Matters2 Spiky World 173 Rise of the Mega-Region 414 The Clustering Force 61Part II The Wealth of Place5 The Mobile and the Rooted 796 Where the Brains Are 917 Job-Shift 1018 Superstar Cities 127Part III The Geography of Happiness9 Shiny Happy Places 14710 Beyond Maslow's City 16111 Cities Have Personalities, Too 187Part IV Where We Live Now12 Three Big Moves 21713 The Young and the Restless 22314 Married with Children 25115 When the Kids Are Gone 27516 Place Yourself 287Acknowledgments 307Appendices 311Notes 335Index 359
