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5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking, Feb 16 2012

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This review is from: Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life (Paperback)

We saw Richard Florida on TV and decided to buy the book. It is well researched and well written. It really makes you think about the world that we live in.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Help me, Aug 7 2008

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This review is from: Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life (Hardcover)

Ostensibly "Who's Your City?" is a self-help book intended to facilitate using career preferences, relationships, personality and life-stage to find the optimum place to live. But alas, Dr. Florida is not part of the helping professions. Rather, he is an academic researcher and the book is primarily a rundown of his and others research. The self-help is a last chapter add on that is skimpy and not thought out. For example; step seven advises observing people's behaviour in a targeted city to determine the level of trust in the city but we are not advised to actually visit the city until step ten.

The book is more successful as a review of some important global trends. Dr. Florida's key point is that where we chose to live is as important a decision as what we chose to do and who we chose as a life partner. Obvious perhaps but, as Dr. Florida points out, historically we have not given the decision of where to live sufficient attention. Topics covered to support his argument include; the formation of "mega-regions" through "clustering" of like minded individuals, the creative class' affect on mega-regions and vice versa and the effect of location on happiness. All are presented adequately with a liberal measure of anecdotes. After reading the book I have to agree with his premise.

A minor complaint: despite Dr. Florida's contention that where to live is now a global decision and despite his current location in Toronto, Canada or any of the world outside the U.S. are not considered as possible choices of where to live. It does not seem unreasonable to think there are at least a few plausible options beyond the U.S.

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Not much new here., April 20 2008

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This review is from: Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life (Hardcover)

While I enjoyed the "Rise of the Creative Class" this book adds little that is new, and ends up concluding that where you decide to live is important - hard to disagree with that, but I expected more.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not enough substance
I liked the book, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is already familiar with his other work. Read more

Published on May 19 2009 by J. Henry

5.0 out of 5 stars who's your city : with explanations and applications
Richard Florida practices what he preaches, by moving from Newark New Jersey to Toronto. He is reported to be interested in applying his theories to Canadian cities. Read more

Published on Jun 24 2008 by Ken Raudys