The Rise of the Creative Class. Revisited.

Abstract

This book, initially published in 2002, achieved classic status for identifying the emergence of a new social class made up of people - engineers and managers, academics and musicians, researchers, designers, entrepreneurs and lawyers, poets and programmers - whose work turns on the creation of new forms. Millions of people were begining to work and live much like artists and scientists always had, and this Creative Class, Florida observed, was determining not just the style of the workplace, but which companies would prosper or go bankrupt, and even which cities would thrive. In this edition, Revisited, Florida further refines his occupational, demographic, psycological, and economic profile of the Creative Class, incorporates a decade of new research, and adds five new chapters on the global implications of this phenomenon. Provocative and arresting, The Rise of the Creative Class - Revisited, will continue to shape our understanding of our economy, our culture at large, and our changing geography.