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Richard Florida’s Cities and the Creative Class allows us to revisit themes introduced by the author’s 2002 work The Rise of the Creative Class and How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life with greater empirical precision and the benefit of added reflection and introspection. Cities and the Creative Class is a further elaboration […]

High Performance Government is that rare example where the sequel is better than the original. In this case, that’s not really fair, because the original was a 48-page report, which has been reprinted in its entirety as the first part of the sequel. So for those public managers who have already read the second Volcker […]