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Who’s Your City? : How The Creative Economy Is Making Where To Live The Most Important Decision Of Your Life

  • Who's Your City? : How The Creative Economy Is Making  Where To Live The Most Important Decision Of Your Life
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    Richard Florida
  • Publication Details

    Book, Basic Books, 2008
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    It’s a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn’t matter. Florida’s insights and data provide an essential guide for the more than 40 million Americans who move each year, illuminating everything from what those choices mean for our everyday lives to how we should go about making them. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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    • Globalization is not flattening the world; in fact, place is increasingly relevant to the global economy and our individual lives. Who’s Your City? offers the first available city rankings by life-stage, rating the best places for singles, families, and empty-nesters to reside. –From amazon.com
  • Contents

    • WHY PLACE MATTERS. Spiky world
    • Rise of the mega-region
    • The clustering force
    • THE WEALTH OF PLACE. The mobile and the rooted
    • Where the brains are
    • Job-shift
    • Superstar cities
    • THE GEOGRAPHY OF HAPPINESS. Shiny happy places
    • Beyond Maslow’s city
    • Cities have personalities, too
    • WHERE WE LIVE NOW. Three big moves - - The young and the restless
    • Married with children
    • When the kids are gone
    • Place yourself
  • ISBN

    • 9780465003525
    • 0465003524
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