In its final grand zoning gesture, the Bloomberg administration is racing to rezone Midtown East, paving the way for what could be a wave of huge, skyline defining towers. But in an essay in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, Richard Florida seems to warn that that could be the wrong approach for New York, as it has been the case in other hyper-dense cities. Read More
We still can’t figure out this “lumosity” thing, a measure of brain performance, that Richard Florida is on about, but the urban theorist mapped it against cities across the country in a column for Atlantic Cities, and the conclusion, at least to the parochial writers here at The New York Observer, is that we are a bunch of dum dums. Read More
There is a reason the sight of a balding, short, pudgy man walking arm-in-arm with a tall, leggy and meticulously toned and coiffed blond is so common on the streets of Manhattan.
Surprise, surprise: Single women between 25 and 44—the prime marrying age—far outnumber single men in most large cities on the East Coast and Read More
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everyone did creative things all the time and got rich, enlightened and satisfied in the process? Richard Florida certainly thinks so.
Mr. Florida, a public-policy professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, has managed to create a lifestyle brand name from the self-evident idea that post-industrial economies need imaginative, intelligent Read More
