Urbanism, Cities, Innovation, Management, Creativity, Strategy, Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Business Economics
Richard Florida is one of the world’s leading urbanists and international best-selling author of The Rise of the Creative Class. He is Visiting Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University and University Professor at the University of Toronto and serves as Kresge Foundation Visiting Senior Fellow. He previously taught at Carnegie Mellon University and NYU and has been a visiting professor at Harvard and MIT. He is co-founder of CityLab, the leading publication devoted to cities and urbanism. He provides strategic advice to companies, foundations, and governments worldwide, and serves on the boards of several real estate development firms, venture capital firms, and investment funds.
BA, Political Science, Rutgers College, 1979
PHD, Urban Planning, Columbia University, 1986