Richard Florida
@Richard_Florida
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Visiting Distinguished Professor @VanderbiltU @vanderbiltowen University Professor @UofT, @rotmanschool, @UofTCities, Visiting Senior Fellow @kresgefnd
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Joined November 2008
“The capitalist capital of the world is now the epicenter of an ascendant and impatient socialist-led rebellionover affordability, over who gets to make a life in the New York that bred Wall Street and Occupy Wall Street “…
nytimes.com
New York City has often set the political, cultural and financial course of the country. Tuesday’s mayoral election — and a New Yorker watching from Washington — could scramble it all.
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"In Miami, ballots should come with family trees."
nytimes.com
In a city of often-zany elections, this year’s mayoral race is especially rich in personal stories and longstanding feuds.
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"A luxury broker who supports Andrew Cuomo said that, since the primary, much to her relief, things have been busy. “Plenty of people are buying right now.”"
curbed.com
Some are underbidding with the hope of a real-estate panic — but not having much luck.
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"This is what awaits the Democratic nominee if he wins: a cabal of capitalists holding out the municipal finance straitjacket, like an award from some hellish golf tournament, belting his administration’s arms behind their backs."
thebaffler.com
Should Zohran Mamdani become the next mayor of New York City, he will be restricted by the municipal bond market.
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"We basically have hope versus despair. Cuomo is despair. Each one has different strengths. But my students are working for Mamdani." Mitchell Moss, NYU Urbanist. https://t.co/MKsTnOD1VO via @NYTOpinion
nytimes.com
Times Opinion convened a panel to weigh in on who is best equipped to lead the city.
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"The Ontario ad was right ..." https://t.co/jJ4s32oFzd via @NYTOpinion
nytimes.com
Reagan would not have approved of Trump’s tariffs.
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With a nod to @Richard_Florida, access to talented and creative people is to post-centenary Stoke-on-Trent businesses what access to clay and coal was when King George V first conferred city status on this ‘place that has such a great artistic and industrial mix of talent and
“… this place that has such a great artistic and industrial mix of talent and fortitude.” Beyond Stoke-on-Trent’s centenary year of celebration, achieving @UNESCO Creative City status will help to unlock the catalytic potential of our #Future100 city’s cultural and heritage
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The most controversial issue on NYC’s ballot isn’t Mamdani. It’s housing https://t.co/G9lykq2TpM
cnn.com
New York City voters are currently deciding on one of the most polarizing issues in decades. But it has nothing to do with Zohran Mamdani.
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NYC will be just fine. These takes are even dumber than Covid would kill New York ...
nypost.com
If Zohran Mamdani takes City Hall, expect New Yorkers to pack their bags and move their businesses to Florida, Texas, Georgia and Arizona. Political scientist Charles Lipson says New York risks...
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This should've been obvious from git-go. Austin has long been as much or more progressive than Silicon Valley ...
apple.news
A group of California dissidents settled in Texas’s capital during the pandemic. It wasn’t the right-wing paradise they’d imagined.
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"Cities embody everything that MAGA claims to despise. They’re messy, complex mosaics of sexual, ethnic and cultural difference"...
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Will Donald Trump learn Gerald Ford’s bitter lesson?
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The North is losing fewer people and the South isn't gaining like it once was. ... net domestic migration to the South was down almost 38%. Domestic migration to the Midwest is up about 60% though it's still negative in absolute terms.
businessinsider.com
The real estate market has split in two. Sunny winners of the work-from-home reshuffle, like Tampa, Phoenix, and Atlanta, are no longer on top.
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This is an incredible piece of research. It tracks housing prices over the past century. Midwest centers like Detroit once had the highest housing prices in the country. The rise of superstar cities & tech hubs is relatively recent ...
washingtonpost.com
Did your grandparents and great-grandparents really pay less for their homes than you did, even after inflation? The Department of Data might have the answer.
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The decline of traditional news websites isn’t great news per se. There is outrageously good stuff being published on Substack but it’s all done without editors. As a writer myself I appreciate how helpful editors are. Journalism is increasingly replaced by opinion pieces. The
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How Vanderbilt is helping to build the university - and city - of the future… https://t.co/jVtJxVpkVB via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
At a time of financial and enrollment uncertainty in higher education, Vanderbilt University, along with other schools, has forged ahead with expansion.
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Private sector climate data cannot make up for the official climate data that’s disappearing. For climate data, like economic data, private data is a complement, not a substitute, for public data. New via @FT
ft.com
Datasets have been removed, federal websites scrubbed and thousands of Noaa staff purged. Experts warn disaster defences are at risk
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Blaming baby boomers for the plight of younger generations is a sleazy distraction pushed by rich people who control the major media outlets
cepr.net
Young people should blame the rich, not Boomers, for economic inequality as high healthcare costs, and housing issues stem from elite-driven policies.
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I asked Curtis Sliwa "are you okay with losing and knowing you contributed to Mamdani's victory?" I did my best to relay the concerns of capitalist america and used @BillAckman's tweet as a reference "a vote for Curtis Sliwa is a vote for Zohran Mamdani" This was Sliwa's
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