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Richard Florida

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1 year

Where Americans Are Moving To? (Via ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩)

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The State of Our Union in One Photo ... http://t.co/yLtPBI8gz3

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4 years

This is exactly right. Phase 1: Social/ Physical Distancing for 4-8 weeks to flatten the curve Phase 2: A New Normal Returns in Summer Phase 3: Massive/ Universal Testing & Isolation of those with the virus combined with better therapies Phase 4: Vaccine

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5 years

CBC is projecting a Liberal government, Trudeau win ...

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6 years

Just think about how much more damage will be inflicted in three more years. It is almost like purposeful destruction of every asset in the knowledge economy ...

Bloomberg Opinion

@opinion

6 years

. @Noahpinion warns that the GOP tax plan for colleges is a self-inflicted wound

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4 years

"We can either lockdown until we have a vaccine (12–18 months), or we can ramp up free widespread testing (1 month) and get back to business." h/t: @Noahpinion :

Free, Widespread Testing Is The Only Way America Goes Back to Normal

The difference to the economy is 15–19 trillion dollars over the next year

medium.com

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Richard Florida

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3 years

"Trump will have to face the law he violated and violated and violated again."

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7 years

1. Trump's immigration insanity threatens the very core of America's innovative edge - the ability to attract global talent.

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7 years

1. We are undergoing several nested transformations at once that are causing incredible disruptions of the economic social & political order

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7 years

"The Russian government awarded Mr. Tillerson the country’s Order of Friendship decoration" ...

The New York Times

@nytimes

7 years

Exxon Mobil chief emerges as Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state

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Richard Florida

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3 years

It’s the commute … not the office …

Robin Chase

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3 years

Happiness with WFH directly related to length of commute. Survey by @HUBBLE_space HT @axios Takeaways: #SMP1 plan buildings and transport together (routine life doesn't require a car!) More/safer bike/walk infrastructure. Biking is the happiest mode

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Richard Florida

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2 years

"In June 2020, Zillow Group ... announced that employees could move anywhere in the country & never return to an office. The company now has more than 300 employees living in New York City, a 15% increase compared with two years earlier."

As Remote Work Becomes Permanent, Can Manhattan Adapt? (Published 2022)

With more companies adopting hybrid work, New York City’s economy, which relies on commuters and full office buildings, faces an uncertain future.

www.nytimes.com

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Richard Florida

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4 months

1. I have been a professor for almost 40 years now. Let me give you my perspective on what I think has happened on the political/ideological orientation university campuses that seems to have reached a recent boiling point.

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Richard Florida

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6 years

11. The 20 finalists would be well-served by making a pact to NO INCENTIVES. These mayors and economic professionals know one another & can do it. One of a number of professional organizations could sponsor.

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Richard Florida

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7 years

15. The great failure of our time is the failure of the left to outline a inclusive future in this new age of urbanized knowledge capitalism

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7 years

in BOTH parties, across the board ... History will remember those who stayed quiet ...

Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

7 years

Trump again inflicting damage on our democratic norms before even taking office. People of conscience must speak up

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Richard Florida

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4 years

Toronto’s ravines may be my favorite place in the world. The juxtaposition of the natural and built environment or should I say their integration, is to me the greatest thing about Toronto. I can’t think of any city that does this better.

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6 years

9. Any way you slice it, a bad day for Ontario & Toronto ...

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Richard Florida

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5 years

1. Amazon has shown its true colors. It refuses to deal reasonably with its hometown of Seattle or any community that asks for it to pay its freight. This is abusive & shows how awful the entire process was & is.

CNBC Now

@CNBCnow

5 years

BREAKING: After saying it won't build part of HQ2 in NYC, Amazon adds that it does not intend to re-open the search process and will only "proceed in northern Virginia and Nashville" at this time.

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Richard Florida

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7 years

@USATODAY This is fantastic. Will you publish the lists. Who is a member, who has resigned?

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Richard Florida

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4 years

"We are learning that hospitals might be the main Covid-19 carriers ... They are rapidly populated by infected patients, facilitating transmission to uninfected patients.”

Fewer deaths in Veneto offer clues for fight against virus

Divergence of fortunes with nearby Lombardy stems from keeping more patients away from hospitals, experts say

www.ft.com

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Richard Florida

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7 years

2. Even if the ban is lifted, the system has been shocked and global talent put on alert.

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Richard Florida

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4 years

Here's a map of Coronavirus vulnerability from Bert Sperling, based on density, age, obesity, diabetes, hospitals, ICU beds, and population ...

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Richard Florida

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7 years

Upside of Trump: He is knocking the shit out of American complacency, & causing wide swaths of people to become politically engaged ...

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3 years

I remember being in Paris say 4 years ago with a small child & thinking how nuts the cars were. What an incredible change for the better.

21st Century City

@urbanthoughts11

3 years

If you think your city will never change, watch this before/after video of Paris by @Jamesdestafford

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6 years

PAY ATTENTION CITIES!!!! “A bicycle, for me, was the only way to get around the city. If I wanted to meet some of my friends, travel across the city, go to school, play basketball—anything—the bicycle was the way I got around.”

The LeBron James Interview About Bicycles

LeBron James is arguably the world’s greatest basketball player. He’s also a serious cyclist, and he’s giving every student at his new school a bicycle in part because it changed his own life when he...

www.wsj.com

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Richard Florida

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4 years

Ask Yourself: Why is it that North American cities cannot do this?

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett

@modacitylife

4 years

We were pedalling side-by-side today, when it suddenly it hit us: After 16 months of living in the Netherlands, we haven’t once felt unsafe, uncomfortable, or unwelcome while cycling. Not because drivers are better behaved. Because streets are designed to minimize their threat.

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Richard Florida

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6 years

This is from the person who wrote the history of concentration camps ...

Andrea Pitzer

@andreapitzer

6 years

Yes, of course they're concentration camps. They aren't the unique subset of death camps that were invented by the Nazis for genocide, or even Arctic Gulag camps built for hard labor. But they're camps created to punish a whole class of civilians via mass detention without trial.

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6 years

Toronto has 97 cranes. Sydney 346. Dubai 1182 ...

The Seattle Times

@seattletimes

6 years

Seattle is the tower-crane capital of America for the third year in a row — by far. Bellevue is no slouch, either.

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Richard Florida

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3 years

Even stranger, I feel melancholy about returning to the old normal. I have forged much deeper connection to family & friends. I have gotten off the rat race. I found something deeper in this strange pandemic life that I am not sure I want to give up ..

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Richard Florida

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3 years

1. Race to the Bottom - That is another possible take/implication of what is happening with the rise of remote work & the geographic shifts being accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic ... One we are not hearing enough about ...

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6 years

With the beautiful weather, I have been cycling regularly in Toronto. The conditions are beyond appalling. Worse than I remembered or imagine. This is a terrible crisis. More people will be hurt. The city's leadership is disgraceful on this.

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Richard Florida

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6 years

1. I want to try to put Doug Ford's win of the Ontario PC party in some context especially for American observers of Canada.

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@Richard_Florida

6 years

Without Immigrants the Fortune 500 Would Be the Fortune 284 -My latest @CityLab :

The Fortune 500 Would Be a Lot Smaller Without Immigrants

Immigrants and their offspring have built a remarkable proportion of America’s most successful companies, creating trillions of dollars in wealth.

www.bloomberg.com

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Richard Florida

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4 years

We shouldn’t mourn the loss of the central business district, giant retail complexes, or commercial office towers. Let’s use the opportunity to rebuild cities & suburbs around much more integrated 15 minute neighborhoods. And do so in ways that are far more inclusive & resilient.

Conor Sen

@conorsen

4 years

I don’t believe it myself. But if you came back from the future and told me 50-story office buildings primarily used by people with long commutes were the next department stores, I wouldn’t be totally shocked:

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7. My real fear is that by simply coming this far Doug Ford i will now take away any advantage Toronto or Ontario have had in competing for American tech projects & chill the climate for US tech investment ...

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7 years

We are witnessing the end of America's long run at attracting the world's top global talent. That will be among Trump's various legacies ...

Blake Hounshell

@blakehounshell

7 years

Australia’s most popular children’s author was detained and interrogated for two hours at LAX

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Richard Florida

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6 years

Say what you want about social media. But I still find this twitter to be one of the best modes of idea exchange of any. I find debates to be civil, interesting & exciting.

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4 years

Today’s Biden victory stands as one of the three biggest impact events of my life alongside JFK’s assassination and 911.

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Richard Florida

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6 years

6. It's like a Trumpist populist running for Governor of a large American Blue State, like California, NY or Massachusetts. That's what makes it especially scary.

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5 years

"That a trillion-dollar company run by the world’s richest man could run an American Idol auction on more than 230 cities & pick up a handy $3 billion of taxpayer money in the process, is a sad statement of extreme corporate power in our time.”

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Richard Florida

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7 years

Income inequality does not explain the rise of Trumpism/ populism, geographic inequality + racism does ...

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5 years

Speaks to why a Mayor like @PeteButtigieg is our best chance to unify the country:

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Richard Florida

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5 years

Here’s some advice to @Amazon @jeffbezos Give the incentive money back - you don’t need it and the potential brand damage is too great. Pledge to be a good corporate citizen & contribute to affordable housing, workforce development & transit.

Facing opposition, Amazon reconsiders N.Y. headquarters site, two officials say

The prolonged fight could lead the company to shift 25,000 jobs elsewhere.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Richard Florida

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10 years

#Sochi Medals per 10 million people: Norway 26 Slovenia 19 Latvia 15 Switzerland 9 Sweden 8 Canada 3.5 Russia 1 USA 0.5

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7 years

Miami’s mayor on Hurricane Irma: "If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is."

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7 years

The tip of the proverbial iceberg. Wait until the lagged effects show up in a couple of decades ...

U.S. News Education

@USNewsEducation

7 years

Colleges from all over the United States are reporting a drop in the number of international student applications.

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Richard Florida

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2 months

I think about this everytime someone says people are leaving cities. The reality is the super-rich are gobbling this up. Prices are stratospheric. As I like to put it, many families would gladly trade their suburban homes lovely 3-4-5 bedroom city townhomes at a similar price…

VB Knives

@Empty_America

2 months

There is pent up market demand in USA for areas like what is pictured below. They can't be built anymore in any major metro due to legal obstructions, and thus the value gets "bid up" endlessly. If legalized, developers would waste no time in meeting this demand.

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Richard Florida

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4 years

Make American Less Innovative Again ...

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

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4 years

This is bad. ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester.

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Richard Florida

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5 years

For starters ... Reduce speed limits Take away licenses for excessive speeding Install pedestrian right-of-way cross walks Eliminate right on red Stagger light changes to enable peds to cross ahead of traffic Install a real bike lane system

André Picard

@picardonhealth

5 years

Toronto is trying to figure out how to stop drivers from killing pedestrians via @BlogTO @Walk_TO #VisionZero

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Richard Florida

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6 years

3. Recall that his brother Rob Ford ran and won as mayor of Toronto. That alone is like having a Trumpist as mayor of say NY or LA ...

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Richard Florida

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7 years

Exactly. It is shocking & disgraceful ...

Scott Dworkin

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7 years

. @MAXBOOT : Trump bragged about obstruction of justice-I'm stunned GOP's basically taking it #AMJoy #LetComeySpeak

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8 years

Even when he loses, Trump is a huge stain on America's character. I feel sick watching this ...

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Richard Florida

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6 years

Compare to average household size. 1930: 4.1 people 1950: 3.7 1950: 3.3 1980: 2.8 1990: 2.6 2017: 2.5 In 1930, average person had 255 SF of space. In 2017, average person has four times as much - 1063 SF!

M. Nolan Gray

@mnolangray

6 years

Average floor area of a new single-family home: 1920: 1,048 square feet 1930: 1,129 1940: 1,177 1950: 983 1960: 1,289 1970: 1,500 1980: 1,740 1990: 2,080 2000: 2,266 2010: 2,392 2014: 2,657 Free life advice: you don't need all that space.

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10 years

Loving this ... http://t.co/mWWSjLIa0g http://t.co/FezSZaNbsP

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6 years

WOW. This from Amazon's Director of Economic Development. Illuminating on several different levels ...

Mike Grella

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6 years

Memo to the genius leaking info about Crystal City, VA as #HQ2 selection. You’re not doing Crystal City, VA any favors. And stop treating the NDA you signed like a used napkin.

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6 years

12. @amazon should recalibrate and say it does not want incentives & will work as a partner with these communities to address their issues & challenges of affordable housing, transit, low wage jobs etc.

The downside of the race to be Amazon’s second home

Even citizens of the winning city will feel aggrieved at giving away big tax incentives

www.ft.com

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11. Students would come to my classes or my office and tell me they wanted to help make cities better - more innovative, productive & inclusive - but other classes they were taking basically were teaching this was all gentrification.

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Richard Florida

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3 years

. @ranaflorida & I just got a visit from Canadian public health authorities checking on our quarantine. We are now being observed doing our Day 8 online Covid test. We are both fully vaccinated. Is it crazy to think such precious public health resources could be put to better use

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5 years

1. This is something we turned up in research on Toronto too. We found mental disorders cut across almost every socio-economic category, save for one group: recent immigrants.

Big Think

@bigthink

5 years

Immigrants have fewer mental disorders than U.S.-born Americans. Why?

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7 years

1. I never thought I could feel as bad for America a I did on election day, but today I feel as bad or worse.

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Richard Florida

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6 years

1. Few surprises on the #AmazonHQ2 Shortlist: Atlanta Austin Boston Chicago ColumbusDallas Denver Indianapolis Los Angeles Miami Montgomery County Nashville, Newark New York City Northern Virginia Philadelphia Pittsburgh Raleigh Toronto D.C.

Amazon names top 20 finalists in second headquarters race

The Seattle-based tech giant named finalists in the race to win its second headquarters, narrowing the pool of 238 cities to 20.

www.usatoday.com

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Richard Florida

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7 years

Clinton 55% of the vote in metros with more than 1 million people, which generate 2/3s of America’s economic output:

To Understand the 2016 Election, Look to the Metro Areas

Large metros voted for Clinton. Everywhere else went for Trump.

www.bloomberg.com

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6 years

5. Doug Ford is running on a populist platform in Ontario a province that has much more in common with a large American Blue State like NY or Massachusetts or California.

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10 years

#Sochi Gold Medals per 10 million people - analysis via @CharlottadcM - http://t.co/jgYcMfpopL

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2 years

1. Take a close look at this chart. It a very different & very useful take on downtown recovery of North American cities by my @UofTCities colleague @profchapple .

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Richard Florida

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8 years

For just the third time in its history, the editors of The Atlantic endorse a candidate for president:

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Richard Florida

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6 years

Happy 102nd Jane. You not only predicted the comeback of cities & their importance to economic growth, you predicted Trump's America:

The Jane Jacobs Guide to the Trump Presidency

Ever prescient, her final book outlined a coming dark age—and how to get through it.

www.bloomberg.com

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Richard Florida

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10 years

RT @raju : Shanghai in 1987 and 2013 http://t.co/lt0MCJWeqY h/t @iron_emu

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7 years

We've been at this, what, two weeks: How do we live through FOUR YEARS of it ...?

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7 years

The electoral college is just one of the many institutions that are stacked against our cities - our true innovation & economic engines ...

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6 years

Anthony Bourdain, Urbanist.

What Anthony Bourdain Understood About Cities

The work of the acclaimed chef and writer, who has died at 61, provides a model for a truly inclusive urbanism based on the creativity of all human beings.

www.bloomberg.com

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6 years

Jane Jacobs Hated Community Participation Processes. She Was Right. My latest @CityLab :

NIMBYs Dominate Local Zoning Meetings

A study of the Boston area shows that those who participate in planning and zoning board meetings are older, wealthier, and much more NIMBYish.

www.bloomberg.com

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6 years

"Trump won white voters at every level of class and income. He won workers, he won managers, he won owners, he won robber barons. This is not a working-class coalition; it is a nationalist one."

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7 years

1. The whole Clinton lost because of the white working class meme suffers from bad math.

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7 years

Trump is working fast to undermine two key pillars of American innovation & wealth generation: its universities & openness to immigrants ...

John Harwood

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7 years

President Trump has picked Jerry Falwell Jr. to head his higher-education task force

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2 years

1. Checking the new @axios Poll on where college students want to live post-graduation. Interesting stuff in many ways.

Exclusive: Seattle is the top destination where college students want to land

“It feels like a young-person city."

www.axios.com

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Richard Florida

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3 years

A Post-Pandemic Prediction in 2 Parts: 1. Cities, dense living, urban amenities will come roaring back as people crave connection in the Roaring 2020s. 2. Office/Central Business Districts will decline as people work from home & do meetings & socialize in actual neighborhoods.

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7 years

Another uber-rich silver spoon NYer playing the American working class for fools ....

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10 years

Where Silicon Valley's Talent Comes From GRAPHIC - http://t.co/3Tvx6MoBTo http://t.co/YTGbmZofvf

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7 years

17. At the very top of the list that means a vision of how the 70 million members of the low wage multi-racial service class can prosper

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6 years

"Before we slipped into an alternate universe of unabashed corruption, this tweet alone might have ended a Presidential administration."

The Hill

@thehill

6 years

JUST IN: Ex-White House ethics chief: Trump's tweet on firing Flynn may have ended his presidency

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2. The first is the shift from natural resources & physical power/labor to knowledge - where the mind has become the means of production.

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6 years

1. The Amazon HQ2 competition is a ruse. As usual, the "game" pits cities & states against each other to come away with the biggest deal. it's time for mayors & governors to organize, opt out & say no.

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3 years

As an American who lives in Canada (Toronto), I cannot tell you how transformative this is. It will help open the border -too many people can't cross and see their families- & secure trade. This is smart policy in action! Go BIDEN.

Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

3 years

BREAKING—White House plans to send 2.5 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca #covid19 vaccine to Mexico and 1.5 million to Canada. 30 mil doses sit in warehouses. This comes just as US quietly pressing Mexico to curb migrants coming to the border.

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13. I think it’s very easy to see this kind of ideological work. Because it’s not actual research or facts or data. Their research output is basically opinion and essay. Most academics can see straight through that.

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16. That does not mean reaching backward to placate the forces of reaction but creating a vision of a diverse inclusive & prosperous society

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10. But in contrast claims of American "decline," the US is perhaps best positioned of any place to succeed/ compete in this new age.

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7 years

THIS ...

Calestous Juma

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#WomensMarch worldwide

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4 years

1. It is far too soon to predict the death of cities.

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5 years

“The number one reason companies chose not to expand in New York was the condition of transportation infrastructure.” ...

Maybe It’s Not Taxes That Scare Off Business but Failing Subways (Published 2018)

Amazon is coming to New York despite the city’s transit horrors. Other companies may not be so forgiving.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

1. Let's say colleges and universities can't reopen in the fall, because of fits & starts of the virus or fear of second wave. We need to plan now to reopen classes, dining halls & dorms, but what happens if they can't.

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4 years

Winner-Take-All Urbanism ... "Just five metropolitan areas—Boston; San Diego; San Francisco; Seattle; and San Jose, Calif.—accounted for 90% of all U.S. high-tech job growth between 2005 to 2017."

Five Cities Account for Vast Majority of Growth in Tech Jobs, Study Finds

The forces that are driving the nation’s top technology talent to just a handful of cities have intensified in recent years, leaving much of the nation behind as the U.S. becomes a more digital...

www.wsj.com

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4 years

Real leadership is coming from governors & mayors.

Paul Goldberger

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4 years

Watching @NYGovCuomo ’s press conference this morning, with its combination of straight talk, empathy, common sense and hard information, could not be more different from the circus of incompetence, drivel and nastiness spewed by Trump yesterday. #leadership #trustexpertise

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Richard Florida

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6 years

@jen_keesmaat I am now less sure than you. I am rebuffed at every level. I cannot even get my progressive councilor to help make a single street safe. I have never ever seen a culture of neglect & "no" like this. It may sound strange, but "feels" similar to how Americans fail to deal w guns.

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Trumpy will kill the Rustbelt ...

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