Quotes by Richard Florida

About Richard Florida:

Richard L. Florida is an American urban studies theorist. Florida's focus is on social and economic theory. He is currently a professor and head of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
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It's not that gays and diversity equal high technology. But if your culture is not such that it can accept difference, and uniqueness and oddity and eccentricity, you will not get high tech industry.

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Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.

Richard Florida

Author Bio

  • NameRichard Florida
  • DescriptionAmerican academic
  • BornNovember 26, 1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEconomist