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Dr. Richard Florida Launches the Great Re-Set at Rotman School of Business

May 4th, 2010 by Kerri King

Attending the launch of Dr. Florida’s new book at Rotman tonight…

The Great Reset: How new ways of living and working drive the post-crash prosperity.

Dr. Florida says in order to re-set the economy, we need to increase efficiencies, make cost of housing and cars more affordable, and focus on the new economy.

Question:

Do we need these giant houses? Would we have a better quality of life if we weren’t spending all of our disposable income on cars, houses? Florida says that we have to reset the cost of housing in order to make the cost of living more realistic and sustainable.

Florida says that we need to look at:

-rental housing -transit commuting -walkable communities

Is the mindset in Durham Region to Reset?

What do you think?

Creativity the key to Durham’s future, says professor Richard Florida

November 26th, 2009 by Jennifer Santos

Great article on NewsDurhamRegion.com!

Click here to read the article.

Dr. Florida’s 4 T’s

November 13th, 2009 by Sue Sutcliffe
  1. Technology
  2. Talent
  3. Tolerance
  4. Tons of Territory Assets

great speech

November 12th, 2009 by Pradeep Suriar

Great speech by Dr. Florida

Pradeep Suriar
General Manager
Vandermeer Nursery Ltd.
588 Lakeridge Road South
Ajax, Ontario, L1Z 1X3

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Richard Florida

November 12th, 2009 by Bev Hendry

His talk was extremely inspirational!  Lots of ideas for new types of economic development in Scugog….

Creative minds

November 12th, 2009 by AOT Guest

Great presentation by Dr. Florida. Good insight on how companies like Toyota become successful by seeing people as a valuable resource.

Mike Anton
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Creative minds

November 12th, 2009 by AOT Guest

Dr Florida was great.

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Transition

November 12th, 2009 by Cindy Symons-Milroy

What an amazing event. Richard Florida inspires us to think differently – beyond traditional industry to creative, cultural communities

Cindy Symons-Milroy, Ec.D., Director
Economic Development Services
City of Oshawa
905 436 3859 (tel)
905 259 1164 (cell)
www.oshawa.ca

Seminar is interesting

November 12th, 2009 by AOT Guest

Enjoyed Dr. Florida’s presentation.

November 12th, 2009 by AOT Guest

Richard Florida – inspiring talk!
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