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Pros

Who's your city is a fascinating study of how the world is changing, from macroeconomics to popular culture. People's happiness does depend a great deal on where they live, how far they commute to work, the general feel of a city and their stage in li...  Read More

Richard florida's work always, justly, draws a lot of attention. Florida tackles an issue so big that we often fail to see it. Florida shares many interesting insights.

Who’s your city? Is a kindlebook that lists the best places for singles, professionals, older adults, and retirees. The book is based on a place and happiness survey that asked respondent's where they feel best to reside.

Based on a person's skill set, florida helps align those skills and interests with regions to consider. Florida believes that cities, like people, have their own personalities and that you should choose yours carefully.



Cons

The opening chapters talk of arbitrary configurations of mega-regions, geography scholars' flavour of the year. Florida offers that one day tokyo will expand to encompass all of honshu but fails to acknowledge that japan is already completely urbanize...  Read More

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Quality


This is causing a rise in household income inequality as education is highly correlated to income


Instead this book lays a solid foundation about why location is such an important factor in quality of life


If a small thing like sidewalks can affect ones happiness and quality of life then one can only imagine how an entire city its...  Read More


I dont agree with the ideas of the majority

Packaging/appearance


My guess is he let research assistants write a little too much of this work and then he rushed through the edit

Competitiveness


Those are the winners in the competition for talent


Others find themselves priced out and move out of those superstar cities leaving room for other creative class achievers to mov...  Read More

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    live, most, creative, important and many.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 101 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 19 2022.

Helpful InsightsBETA

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Too bad this book outlines an outstanding idea


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    He explores the emerging megaregions boswash northern california greater london that are replacing nations as the organizing force of economic activity


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Then in the last section florida brings it all together and shows why the book got its name


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    To his credit florida doesnt assume we should all move to creative class meccas like austin or seattle


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I placed order as new copy but found the product doesnt look like brand new one when i received it


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    We spend a lot of time and energy on career and mate choice but not nearly enough on this crucial question


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Floridas analysis is wellwritten and easily accessible but i wonder if the data he presents is overly dumbeddown to be accessible to the general public


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its an interesting set of insights and i recommend it to any and everyone considering a location switch but dont expect a thorough sociological or anthropological analysis

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