WHO’S YOUR CITY?: HOW THE CREATIVE ECONOMY IS MAKING WHERE TO LIVE THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION OF YOUR LIFE REGIONS, AND HOW TO FIND YOUR IDEAL PLACE IN OUR SPIKY WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 12580007B18693
English Summary/英文概要： From the best-selling author of The Rise of the Creative Class, 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.
Who’s Your City? 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《你属哪座城?》内容讲述了：什么是一个人一生中最重要的决定？上哪所大学？做哪一行？跟谁过一辈子？不，最重要的是我们把家安在哪儿！因为它其实决定了生活中的其他方面，并在很大程度上决定了我们幸福指数的高低，而这一点，绝大多数人并没有意识到。美国学者理查德·弗罗里达指出，居住地的选择将影响我们的收入、人际网络、伴侣以及子女和家庭能得到的机会。当我们听到"世界是平的"，似乎意味着居住在任何地方都能和外界联系并高效工作，所以家住何处似乎也变得无关紧要。弗罗里达的研究证明，这个认识是完全错误的，全球化潮流导致的恰恰是地区差异进一步拉大，选择不同的居住地，意味着完全不同的人生。纽约、北京、上海、东京这样的超级经济区域日渐变成经济增长的真正引擎，但是生活在其中的成本和代价也超乎寻常。城市如同人一样，体现出了各不相同的气质和性格。我们选择了一个城市，不仅选择了它提供的机会，也选择了它的气质和它所提供的服务；只有找到跟自己需求和气质相符的城市，我们才可能幸福。理查德-弗罗里达被誉为美国"最杰出最睿智的知识分子"，在《你属哪座城?》中，他回答了"为什么某些人特别适合居住在某些城市"这个至关重要却常常被忽略的问题，呈现了财富和智慧在全球分布的脉络及规律，为人们认识世界、做出选择提供了一个新的视角。作为他近。20年实证研究的结晶，弗罗里达制作的"居住地确定器"能为不同性格、不同需求和处于人生不同阶段的人提供居住地指南。 当我们看完这本书，最应该做的就是马上考虑应该如何制订我们这一生的安家计划。(DB)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 理查德•弗罗里达（Richard Florida）是美国著名学者，曾被《君子》(Esquire)杂志评为“最杰出最睿智的知识分子”。2003年出版了畅销书The Flight of the Creative Class（《创意阶层的崛起》）。他是马丁繁荣研究院的学术主任和多伦多大学罗特曼管理学院教授，还是华盛顿、多伦多、匹兹堡和欧洲等地的“创意阶层组织”的创始人
Richard Florida is Professor of Business and Creativity at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and the founder of the Creative Class Group, a for-profit think tank that charts trends in business, communities, and lifestyles. His national bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class was awarded the Washington Monthly’s Political Book Award and Harvard Business Review’s Breakthrough Idea Award. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
如下是作者网址：http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2007/26/c8701.html
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