Review: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Recensione dell'utente - Tressie Mcphd - GoodreadsIt's not a bad book or a bad premise. There are knowledge producers in this world. I get it. I've seen Florida speak and I think I've read two of his three books. Look, it's seductive as hell, OK? It ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Recensione dell'utente - Shari - GoodreadsWhile this work is researched and includes lovely charts and graphs, Richard Florida's conclusions just don't follow from his data. The class of people he dubs creative are just fairly well educated ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Recensione dell'utente - Derek Simon - GoodreadsI found the ideas in this book intriguing and compelling, but I didn't find them totally convincing, for a few reasons. First, Florida relies allot on anecdotal evidence instead of empirical evidence ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Recensione dell'utente - Dan Mccarthy - GoodreadsTime has demonstrated just how important this book as. Florida's focus in on the dynamics of groups and the impact of proximity on innovation. The Great Recession proved how his observations about the ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Recensione dell'utente - lilly - GoodreadsThis book does a lot of economic analysis, looking at the relationship between demographics and economic development. The author finds some fascinating correlations and then does interviews and field ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Recensione dell'utente - Liam - Goodreads"Creativity involves the ability to synthesize. Einstein captured it nicely when he called his own work 'combinatory play.' It is a matter of sifting through data, perceptions and materials to come up ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Recensione dell'utente - Andrea Slot - GoodreadsAn interesting book about revisiting the way we view "class" in the US, but the book is longer than it needs to be and a little thin on evidence for some of the key ideas (as, for example, the look at ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Recensione dell'utente - Marie - GoodreadsCould have been summed up in 100 pages or less. However, it did lead to a good book club discussion. Leggi recensione completa
Review: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Recensione dell'utente - Liz - Goodreadsyeah, it was pretty bad. it was not as bad as it could've been -- it makes some critiques of precarity which I honestly wasn't expecting -- but ultimately it's a fairly nauseating celebration of the ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Recensione dell'utente - Allison - GoodreadsFantastic! Leggi recensione completa
