false 2463346 6 From the best-selling author of <I>The Rise of the Creative Class</I>, a brilliant new book on the surprising importance of place, with advice on how to find the right place for you. It's a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen or a beachhouse in Provence as in the office of a Silicon Valley startup. According to Richard Florida, this is wrong. Globalization is not flattening the world; in fact, place is increasingly relevant to the global economy and our individual lives. Where we live determines the jobs and careers we have access to, the people we meet, and the "mating markets" in which we participate. And everything we think we know about cities and their economic roles is up for grabs. <I>Who's Your City?</I> offers the first available city rankings by life-stage, rating the best places for singles, families, and empty-nesters to reside. Florida's insights and data provide an essential guide for the more than 40 million Americans who move each year, illuminating everything from what those choices mean for our everyday lives to how we should go about making them. 2922725 10 3 2008 Who's Your City? total:252|5:27|4:80|3:101|2:37|1:7| 252 839 596 85 4 1 false false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 13:14:11 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 11:27:11 -0800 2009 The Big Sort. Unlike others, I found it a quick read (one day) and not overly technical.

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Some of Florida's reasons for the downturn on the U.S. economy are quite interesting, especially concerning Detroit.

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