Open Book Discussion
The Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier and just buffalo literary center jointly present an Open Book Discussion of “The Rise of the Creative Class: And How Its Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, ”by author Richard Florida. Published by Basic Books, 2002. “Different classes of people have long sorted themselves into neighborhoods within a city or region. But now we find a large-scale re-sorting of people among cities and regions nationwide, with some regions becoming centers of the creative class while others are composed of larger shares of working-class or service-class people. To some extent this has always been true. For instance, there have always been artistic and cultural communities like Greenwich Village, college towns like Madison and Boulder, and manufacturing centers like Pittsburgh and Detroit. The news is that such sorting is becoming even more widespread and pronounced.” – Richard Florida. Richard Florida is a professor of regional economic development at Carnegie Mellon University and a columnist for Information Week.
Chuck LaChiusa will facilitate the discussion.
Tuesdays, August 1, 15 and 29, from 12 – 1 p.m. in the Buffalo Architecture Center, Market Arcade, 617 Main St., Buffalo.
Admission is free, but space is limited to 30.
Please reserve by calling the Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier at 716-852-3300 or e-mailing info@landmark-niagara.org.
A great book if you get a chance to read it i suggest you do.
Richard Florida began his academic career as a faculty member in the School of Architecture and Planning at SUNY-Buffalo.
Florida no longer is in Pittsburgh. He now is Hirst Professor at the George Mason University School of Public Policy in Fairfax, Virginia.