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In the age of globalization, some claim that where you live doesnt matter: Alaska, Idaho, and Alabama are interchangeable.The world is, after all, flat.Not so fast.Place, argues the great urbanist Richard Florida, is not only important, its more important than ever.In fact, choosing a place to live is as important to your happiness as choosing a spouse or career.And some regions, recent surveys show, really are happier than others.In Whos Your City, Creative Class guru Richard Florida reports on this growing body of research that tells us what qualities of cities and towns actually make people happyand he explains how to use these ideas to make your own choices.This indispensable guide to how people can choose where to live and what those choices mean to their lives and their communities is essential reading for everyone from urban planners and mayors to recent graduates. ... Read more

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an eye -opener
Without exaggeration, this is probably one of the most important books of this decade.Opens new perspectives on understanding contemporary life, multi-dimensional.A must for students in social sciences, economics, geography and history.Absolutely thrilling and written in clear, non-technical language, without scientific jargon, yet very deep and far-reaching!Top notch.Veery highly recommended!

review
Haven't had time to read it, but this is the only way to get Amazon to quit emailing me every few days nagging for a review.

Who is your city
My wife and I loved the book...We have both reread parts of it... We also recommend his earlier book -The flight of theCreative Class... I wish I had read this one first.. Both books helped us to make sense out of what we have seen happening over the last few decades....

Dispells the Myth of the Totally Flat World - Creative Regions Thrive
Great for understanding the intersection of demographics, geography and prosperity. His main premise is there are distinct economic corridors in the world. The main ones based on prosperity 1) Boston-NY-Washington-Phili 2)So-Cal (LA-SD) 3) Nor-Cal (silcon valley) 4)Toronto-Buf-Rochester and more. These are the big ones.

Limited view ruins book
I heard about this book and thought the concept sounded interesting but, to believe this book is to believe that the world is not interconnected and that your location on earth determines 90% of your fate.

I'd believe this somewhat

1. if the year was 1893 and we weren't a mouseclick from the rest of the world.

2. If people weren't the most powerful part of equation.They are what make one place or the other the happening place to be.

For example who would have thought of the peach groves that become silicon valley as the place to be until a few kids in their garage made it so. On a funny note, who would have thought Minneapolis would be the R&B capital of the world in the 1980s until Prince made it that way.

This book will leave you chasing the trends that already happened. Real success come from finding he next big thing before it happens. ... Read more

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Cities and the Creative Class gathers in one place for the first time the research leading up to Richard Florida’s theory on how the growth of the creative economy shapes the development of cities and regions.In a new introduction, Florida updates this theory and responds to the critics of his 2002 bestseller, The Rise of the Creative Class. The essays that make up Cities then spell out in full empirical detail and analysis the key premises on which the argument of Rise are based.He argues that people are the key economic growth asset, and that cities and regions can therefore no longer compete simply by attracting companies or by developing big-ticket venues like sports stadiums and downtown development districts.To truly prosper, they must tap and harness the full creative potential of all people, basing their strategies on a comprehensive blend of the 3 Ts of economic development: Technology, Talent, and Tolerance.Long-run success requires a reinvention of regions into the kind of open and diverse places that can attract and retain talent from across the social spectrum – by allowing people to validate their varied identities and to pursue the lifestyles and jobs they choose. ... Read more

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Much worse than his other books
Even though Richard Florida wrote this book three years after The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, he calls it a prequel.He covers the same theme: cities that show openness to people and new ideas thrive as they attract the Creative Class, which in turn creates new markets and cause economic growth.

The foundation of his Creative Capital theory is his 3 Ts of economic growth: tolerance, talent, and technology.For any city to be a thriving Creative Class cluster it needs all three.The Creative Class generates new ideas and products that cause creative centers to thrive.Those include San Francisco, Seattle, Washington D.C., Boston, Denver, and Austin.The cities that are less tolerant of people and new ideas do less well.Examples include Memphis, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Indianapolis.

The author goes into more statistics then in "The Rise of the Creative Class."Unfortunately, they are flawed.He shows many scatter plots with either High Technology or Software workers per million as the dependent variable on the Y axis.He tests those against many independent variables.But, he gets very different results.For instance, when he looks at Environmental Quality vs High Technology (figure 3.4) he gets a random relationship.Meanwhile, Environmental Quality vs Software workers shows a strong relationship.When focusing on Amenities, the reverse is true.Also, his scatter plots are flawed because they select different data.The ones with High Technology have 35 cities.The ones with Software workers have only 27.So, comparisons between the two data sets are invalid.For the one variable (Gay index) that does show strong correlation with both High Technology and Social workers, he may have cherry picked the data as he uses now only 24 cities.Thus, he could have eliminated outliers (11 cities from one data set and 3 from the other) that did not confirm the strong relationship.Later, when he studies the Bohemian Index he uses a different independent variable than the ones he used for the Gay Index rendering the comparison between both indexes moot.

When analyzing the impact of amenities in attracting the Creative Class the statistics and narratives contradict each other.Table 4.2 shows Cultural Amenities with a 0.493 correlation with High Tech.Yet, a similar scatter plot on page 70 shows complete randomness.On page 71, the author states there is no relationship between cultural amenities and the Creative Class, as they strongly prefer outdoor recreational amenities.But, on page 99 he states the opposite: "The results of the correlation analysis support that talented individuals appear to be attracted more by cultural amenities than by recreational amenities or climate."Finally, on page 167 he reverses course again: "The Creative Class prefers active, participatory forms of recreation... these workers enjoy active outdoor sports. "So, which is it?

The single best statistical evidence supporting his Creative Capital Theory is a correlation matrix (fig. 5.2) on page 119 that confirms that the Bohemian Index, Gay Index, Talent, and High Technology are all very highly correlated.Unfortunately, those high correlations are contradicted by a Path Analysis (fig. 4.5) on page 106 with path coefficients that are very small.This raises further confusion.

Semantics are also confusing.The author refers to the Gay Index or the Diversity Index or even the Diversity/Gay Index to refer to the same thing.Why doesn't he stick to just one name?

In the last two chapters, he gives us a lead into his next two books.In chapter 8, he focuses on New York city and the whole East Coast corridor going all the way to Boston.This is the first Meta-Region he focuses on.In chapter 9, he muses about international competition with many cutting edge foreign Meta-Regions (London, Sydney, Tokyo, Vancouver).This will lead to his next book I was not that fond off where he sells the U.S. short, The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent.But, ultimately this research will lead to his second outstanding book, Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life where he will study the 50 or so leading Meta-Regions of the World that generate most of the World's GDP and new ideas.If only he had just written "The Creative Class" and "Who'se Your City?" his track record would have been impeccable.

Not Worth the Time
This honestly might be the worst book I've ever read.I'm a senior in college and was forced to read it for a Sustainable Urban Engineering elective class, and wow what a waste of time.I've never seen an author repeat himself more than Florida did here.He was saying the same things (really, check it out) on, say, page 140 as he was on page 35...that basically cities need to invest not in tax abatements to attract high-quality and talented businesses and people,but need to focus on increasing diversity and quality of life through developing amenities like good social scenes.The book is filled with a bunch of charts, tables, and graphs, backing up his claims that talent and the creative class flock to diverse regions with lots of stuff to do (which, really in my mind isn't groundbreaking information), but they again are extraordinarily repetitive.The book could have easily been condensed into a short article in and I would have gotten just as much out of it.

This book is lousy
My hunch is this is a cheap sequel.Not a lot of discussion, just a lot of (regression) results reporting.Extremely repetitive.Moreover, given that this often verves into being fairly social science (as opposed to pop), the causal linkages seem pretty poorly established.If you want to read this for professional reasons (social science or urban planning), most of this could be ignored; if you want to read this for personal (i.e., recreational) reasons, it's really boring. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Palm City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Martin County, Florida, United States. The population was 20,097 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Port St. Lucie Metropolitan Statistical Area.According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 16.6 square miles (42.9 km²), of which, 14.6 square miles (37.9 km²) of it is land and 2.0 square miles (5.1 km²) of it (11.76%) is water.There were 8,458 households out of which 27.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.2% were married couples living together, 6.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.5% were non-families. 21.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ocean City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. The population was 5,594 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 5,594 people, 2,478 households, and 1,479 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 3,493.5 people per square mile (1,349.9/km²). There were 2,693 housing units at an average density of 1,681.8/sq mi (649.9/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 83.98% White, 7.01% African American, 0.64% Native American, 3.24% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.59% from other races, and 3.49% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.31% of the population. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The city was incorporated on 26 March 1915. It is located on a barrier island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; the Bay separates Miami Beach from the city of Miami, Florida. The city is often referred to under the umbrella term of "Miami," despite being a distinct municipality. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 87,933. 55.5% of the population was foreign born. A 2005 population estimate for the city was 87,925. Miami Beach has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts for almost a century. ... Read more

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Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main highway on the East Coast of the United States, paralleling the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to Florida and serving some of the most populated urban areas in the country, including Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Miami. It is one of the north-south routes of the Interstate Highway System, and replaced older U.S. Highways, mainly U.S. Route 1. The oldest sections of I-95, including several toll roads, predate the Interstate System; the route has yet to be completed in the Pennsylvania-New Jersey area. Construction of the missing connection is scheduled to be completed by the 2010s (tentatively 2014). ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Plant City is a city in Hillsborough County, Florida, approximately midway between Brandon and Lakeland along Interstate 4. The population was 29,915 at the 2000 census. As of 2007, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 32,328. Many people believe it was named for the flora (especially vegetables and fruits, as well as tropical houseplants) grown at plant nurseries in its tropical Gulf Coast climate. However, it was named after prominent railroad developer, Henry B. Plant (see Plant System). Plant City is known as the winter strawberry capital of the world, and hosts the annual Florida Strawberry Festival in the late winter (usually in February or early March), which is attended by people from all over the United States as well as many people from around the world. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Temple Terrace is an incorporated city in northeastern Hillsborough County, Florida, USA, adjacent to Tampa. According to 2006 estimates, the city had a population of 23,405. It is the third and smallest incorporated municipality in Hillsborough County. (Tampa and Plant City are the others.) Incorporated in 1925, the community is known for its rolling landscape, bucolic Hillsborough River (Florida) views, and majestic trees; it has the most grand sand live-oak trees of any place in central Florida. Temple Terrace was originally planned as a 1920s Mediterranean-revival golf-course community. Temple Terrace is a Tree City USA. ... Read more

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This volume offers the first detailed assessment of the Florida growth management experience, a system that has received only piecemeal attention from researchers despite its historical significance and its state-mandated comprehensive planning approach. Because Florida's approach is the most detailed system for managing growth in the US, one that embraces planners and planning in the day-to-day governance of all areas of the state, this book will be of great value to the planning profession as it offers an assessment of one of the most planning-affirmative policy approaches in the United States. With contributions from national experts on land use planning and growth management, this volume offers an assessment of the outcomes of the Florida's approach to managing growth. Over the course of the book, the strengths and weaknesses of the state's approach are identified, providing insights into how and when to manage land use change in a state continuously inundated by growth.In evaluating the successes and failures of the Florida approach, planners and policy makers throughout the United States will learn lessons about how and how not to implement growth management policies at both the state and local level. Overall, while the authors concur that growth management has had a positive impact on restricting growth in Florida, the economic, demographic, and political pressures for continued growth in Florida make it difficult to restrict growth in a way that has had a major impact on the state's natural and built environment-Florida continues to be a sprawling state that is rapidly expanding its urbanized areas even though growth management appears to have had an impact on limiting the spread of growth still further. ... Read more

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Excellent scholarship and research - disappointing product
The book is obviously well researched and documents Florida's cutting edge growth management efforts quite well.
Unfortunately what might have been a useful and far more helpful tool is significantly diminished by the absence of photographs and microscopic charts and maps.At the 'academic' level pricing this book should have at the very least included a CD with the text to allow serious review of the data.
Good work that demands a much better presentation. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 167 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 164 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 100 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oklahoma Christian University (locally known as OC) is a four-year private comprehensive coeducational Christian university founded in 1950 by members of the churches of Christ. Enrollment for the 2008-2009 Academic Year numbered nearly 2,300 which included approximately 2,000 undergraduate and nearly 300 graduate students. OC is located on a 200-acre (0.81 km2) campus in Edmond, Oklahoma, a northern suburb of Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Christian University was originally named Central Christian College. It opened as a two-year college in 1950 with 97 students in Bartlesville, Oklahoma on the 152 acre (615,000 m²) former estate of L.V. Foster, a prominent oil businessman. L. R. Wilson was the college's first president, having founded Florida Christian College just four years before. James O. Baird became the school's second president in 1954 and soon after plans were made to move the campus to Oklahoma City. ... Read more

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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, Second Edition is a vital book for anyone involved in architectural design, space management, and urban planning. The concepts presented in this book explain the link between design and human behavior. Understanding this link can enable a planner to use natural environmental factors to minimize loss and crime and to maximize productivity.

This practical guide addresses several environmental settings, including major event facilities, small retail establishments, downtown streets, residential areas, and playgrounds. A one-stop resource with explanations of criminal behavior and the historical aspects of design, it teaches both the novice and the expert in crime prevention how to use the environment to affect human behavior in a positive manner.










Fully updated with substantial new material in each chapter
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CPED
The book was delivered as described. The book was in great condition. No marks. I near perfect condition. It's nice to know a company is honest and ethical.
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Good textbook.
This text provides down-to-earth information concerning CPTED for the security practitioner.Some material in the first few chapters is repeated excessively.At times the author's opinions are louder than the factual text, detracting from the material.However, the appendicies are excellent and practical.

A Must Read For Practitioners
The CPTED Strategies introduced and well laid out in this book, establish a foundation for creative target hardening and risk transference.
To suggest as one critic does, that this is "low level" stuff is to miss the point entirely.
As a security consultant, I have applied these concepts to a variety of corporate settings with positive results.
If someone is simply looking for standard "templates" without the capacity to creatively apply the ideals this is not the book.
If you are serious about your work, it is essential.

A pedestrian approach to security design
This book has pretty low level info.

If you are looking for ways to secure a high level executive's office suite using the principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, forget it.The examples in this book are more at the level of bus stops.

Hopefully the authors will update their information with modern design scenarios. ... Read more