Occupation: Professor Birth: 1957
We need to find ways to transform the more than 60 million service jobs, which make up 45 percent of U.S. employment, in the same way - rewarding wor….
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill a hug….
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging m….
Already, new forms of short-term and long-term rental housing are popping up in some metro areas. You can take on a house or apartment for a few mont….
Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't..
I think we'll start defining wealth and success differently and develop new approaches to consumption. Things that have always signified wealth and s….
We have to acknowledge that we can't look to manufacturing or natural resources to drive growth like we have in the past. Human capital, talent, and ….
Toronto won't topple New York or London as a financial center, nor will it dethrone Los Angeles as the international entertainment capital, but with ….
People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed..
The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream..
Housing has always been a key to Great Resets. During the Great Depression and New Deal, the federal government created a new system of housing finan….
Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource..
Snoop is a tour de force! It’s one of the smartest and most original books I’ve come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to cle….
We are the only major developed nation that isn't investing meaningfully in high-speed rail, and I believe we're making a mistake. Transportation sys….
There's no getting around the fact that some cities face long odds, and governments and societies are going to be confronted with some hard decisions….
I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our ec….
Ideas are the currency of the new economy..
Economies and societies invariably remake themselves in the wake of a crisis. It's a necessary component of rebound and recovery. Outmoded industries….
Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish..
Denser cities are smarter and more productive.
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making..