Drinking the Downtown Elixir

Drinking the Downtown Elixir

Richard Florida is the Canadian professor and urban planning theorist who convinced central planners and media enablers across the land to redevelop downtowns to attract the so-called creative class—that is, the people who were formerly called Young Urban Professionals, or Yuppies for short. The underlying premise was that a critical mass of upwardly-mobile, college-educated, and...