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Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Impo

2010-03-05 
基本信息·出版社:Basic Books ·页码:384 页 ·出版日期:2008年03月 ·ISBN:0465003524 ·条形码:9780465003525 ·装帧:精装 ·正文语种:英语 · ...
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 Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life


基本信息·出版社:Basic Books
·页码:384 页
·出版日期:2008年03月
·ISBN:0465003524
·条形码:9780465003525
·装帧:精装
·正文语种:英语
·外文书名:何处是你家: 创造型经济如何使居住地成为你人生中的最重大决定?

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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.It's a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in the Alps or a cottage in Provence as in the office of a Silicon Valley startup.According to Richard Florida, this is wrong. Globalization is not flattening the world; in fact, place is increasingly relevant to the global economy and our individual lives. Where we live determines the jobs and careers we have access to, the people we meet and the "mating markets" in which we participate. And everything we think we know about cities and their economic roles is up for grabs."Who's Your City?" is the first book to report on the growing body of research on what qualities of cities and towns actually make people happy in their lives. Choosing a place to live is as important as choosing a spouse or career, but until now, no one has rigorously explored this powerful component of subjective well-being to uncover what people want, need, and get out of the places they live. For everyone from urban planners and mayors to recent graduates, this book will be the essential guide to how people choose where to live, and what those choices mean to their lives and their communities.
作者简介 Richard Florida is Professor of Business and Creativity at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and the founder of the Creative Class Group, a for-profit think tank that charts trends in business, communities, and lifestyles. His national bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class was awarded the Washington Monthly's Political Book Award and Harvard Business Review's Breakthrough Idea Award. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
媒体推荐 "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!" -- Michelle Conlin, Business Week

"Planetizen.com," Top 10 Books - 2009
"This book should be read by anyone considering making a move. More importantly, it should be read by cities to get them thinking about what it is they do best, what kind of people they're attracting, and whether they want - or need - to change."


"BusinessWeek,,"."reading "Who's Your City?" feels like a cross between relationship counseling and a personality exam meant to determine the best career path: It asks as many questions as it answers."


"BookPage,,"."Florida's down-to-earth writing and 10-step plan for choosing the place that fits best will help make deciding where to settle a most enjoyable endeavor."


"The world is not flat, and Richard Florida is the man to tell you why where you choose to live is more important than ever. Passionate and thoughtful, this book is an indispensable guide to the way our cities really work. The spirit of Jane Jacobs lives on." -- Tim Harford, Financial Times columnist and author of The Logic of Life
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly
Choosing a spouse and choosing a career are important life decisions—but perhaps even more predictive of our all-round personal happiness is our choice of living location, argues Florida (The Rise of the Creative Class) in this informative if somewhat dry tome. As globalization makes the world effectively smaller, economic growth concentrates in certain mega-regions of large superstar cities, leaving other regions in the proverbial dust. The areas where we live are also affected by our increasingly mobile culture, housing priorities that change as we age (from starter homes to family-friendly suburbs to empty nests and finally retirement centers) and the global economy. Few of the author's conclusions are new—people gather where they can make friends with others like them, personality types tend to cluster—type A to urban areas, type B to rural—and the book's tone wanders from broad, Friedmanesque discussion of the world economy to home-buying advice as well as statistic-and-theory-heavy text as though unsure of its intended audience. Yet the author opens up a complex, underexamined subject along the way. (Mar.)
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Review
"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!" -- Michelle Conlin, Business Week

"Planetizen.com," Top 10 Books - 2009
"This book should be read by anyone considering making a move. More importantly, it should be read by cities to get them thinking about what it is they do best, what kind of people they're attracting, and whether they want - or need - to change."


"BusinessWeek,,"."reading "Who's Your City?" feels like a cross between relationship counseling and a personality exam meant to determine the best career path: It asks as many questions as it answers."


"BookPage,,"."Florida's down-to-earth writing and 10-step plan for choosing the place that fits best will help make deciding where to settle a most enjoyable endeavor."


"The world is not flat, and Richard Florida is the man to tell you why where you choose to live is more important than ever. Passionate and thoughtful, this book is an indispensable guide to the way our cities really work. The spirit of Jane Jacobs lives on." -- Tim Harford, Financial Times columnist and author of The Logic of Life

Review
Planetizen.com, Top 10 Books – 2009
“This book should be read by anyone considering making a move. More importantly, it should be read by cities to get them thinking about what it is they do best, what kind of people they’re attracting, and whether they want – or need – to change.”


BusinessWeek“…reading Who’s Your City? feels like a cross between relationship counseling and a personality exam meant to determine the best career path: It asks as many questions as it answers.”


BookPage"...Florida's down-to-earth writing and 10-step plan for choosing the place that fits best will help make deciding where to settle a most enjoyable endeavor."


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