https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AEGhfnpi1kc/richard-florida RSS for Node Fri, 08 May 2026 02:09:39 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-15/city-residents-love-central-business-districts-for-dining-shopping-and-work https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-15/city-residents-love-central-business-districts-for-dining-shopping-and-work Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:30:05 GMT People crossing the street at the Oculus Westfield Mall World Trade Center in New York City,New York,USA (Photo by: Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-02/new-technology-strategy-could-revive-midwest-rust-belt-economies https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-02/new-technology-strategy-could-revive-midwest-rust-belt-economies Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:48:56 GMT College towns can be anchors for regional tech economies. But many in the Heartland like Ann Arbor, Michigan, are still exporting much of their best talent. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-07/san-francisco-bay-area-nyc-boston-dominate-vc-investment-in-us https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-07/san-francisco-bay-area-nyc-boston-dominate-vc-investment-in-us Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:01:10 GMT San Francisco financial district skyline at dusk on a clear evening. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-31/despite-remote-work-downtown-nashville-is-thriving-for-residents-and-visitors https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-31/despite-remote-work-downtown-nashville-is-thriving-for-residents-and-visitors Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:01:16 GMT NASHVILLE, TN - AUGUST 06: A wide angle generic view of the Nashville downtown skyline as seen during practice for the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix on August 6, 2022, on the streets of Nashville in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-14/three-years-into-the-pandemic-the-urban-exodus-was-overblown https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-14/three-years-into-the-pandemic-the-urban-exodus-was-overblown Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:20:12 GMT NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - 2022/12/04: New York Citys Fifth Avenue went car-free for the first time in half a century, only open to pedestrians in December - the citys largest-ever holiday season-specific Open Street. (Photo by Ryan Rahman/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-09-08/why-did-housing-costs-explode-during-the-pandemic https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-09-08/why-did-housing-costs-explode-during-the-pandemic Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:00:07 GMT Rents in Miami have jumped 40% since May 2021. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-08-17/as-remote-work-endures-downtowns-are-adapting https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-08-17/as-remote-work-endures-downtowns-are-adapting Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:31:10 GMT Cities with large numbers of remote workers, such as San Francisco, have struggled to lure people back downtown. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-09/where-venture-capital-and-tech-jobs-are-growing https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-09/where-venture-capital-and-tech-jobs-are-growing Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:25:19 GMT An exterior view of the St. Johns Terminal building is seen in New York on September 22,2021. - Google announced on September 21, 2021 plans to buy a New York City office building for $2.1 billion, confirming its push into America's largest city despite the pandemic teleworking trend. According to Real Capital Analytics, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, this is the largest real estate purchase in the United States for an office building since the beginning of global spread of Covid-19. Google already rents the premises in Manhattan, which are located on the site of a former railroad terminal in the Hudson Square neighborhood. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR / AFP) (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-16/the-top-u-s-cities-for-knowledge-workers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-16/the-top-u-s-cities-for-knowledge-workers Wed, 16 Feb 2022 20:46:41 GMT NASHVILLE, TN - FEBRUARY 15: General view of Lower Broadway in downtown Nashville after an overnight mix of sleet and freezing temperatures coated the city in ice on February 15, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee. Major winter storms have swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and precipitation. (Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-07/to-bolster-innovation-the-u-s-needs-a-place-based-policy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-07/to-bolster-innovation-the-u-s-needs-a-place-based-policy Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:32:09 GMT Older industrial cities like Cleveland have been pioneering their own regional economic development strategies for the past several decades, but with limited federal support. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-18/as-elon-musk-goes-to-texas-will-tech-workers-follow https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-18/as-elon-musk-goes-to-texas-will-tech-workers-follow Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:36:33 GMT Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc., center, laughs as he talks with members of the media after meeting Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, in front of Tesla headquarters in Palo Alto, California, U.S., on Thursday, April 30, 2015. President Barack Obama rolled out the red carpet this week for Abe who touted an "alliance of hope" with the U.S. to foster stronger military and trade ties in Asia and beyond. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/local-vaccine-rates-mirror-class-and-density-divides https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/local-vaccine-rates-mirror-class-and-density-divides Mon, 04 Oct 2021 11:45:10 GMT Disparities in vaccine rates reflect more than political divides. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-08/san-francisco-bay-area-dominates-race-for-ai https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-08/san-francisco-bay-area-dominates-race-for-ai Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:02:03 GMT Aerial view of Silicon Valley at dusk, with a portion of the San Mateo/Hayward Bridge visible, as well as Foster City, including the California headquarters of Gilead Sciences, Visa, and Conversica, California, July, 2016. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-14/the-post-pandemic-future-of-central-business-districts https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-14/the-post-pandemic-future-of-central-business-districts Fri, 14 May 2021 09:30:17 GMT Office towers alone won’t sustain urban business districts anymore. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/what-happens-when-the-1-move-to-miami-and-austin https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/what-happens-when-the-1-move-to-miami-and-austin Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:15:20 GMT Beachfront homes are seen in the view from the penthouse of the Regalia luxury condominium in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. Miami, just four years ago the poster child for overleveraged condo buyers who walked away as values plummeted, is turning a new page. Burned by the recession and unable to get financing, developers are now building ultra-luxury towers, based on cash deposits from high-net-worth buyers. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-04/how-metro-areas-voted-in-the-2020-election https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-04/how-metro-areas-voted-in-the-2020-election Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:04:30 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-02/how-coronavirus-will-reshape-u-s-cities https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-02/how-coronavirus-will-reshape-u-s-cities Thu, 02 Jul 2020 10:00:25 GMT Cyclist view buildings in the city skyline of San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. California lawmakers enacted a statewide rent cap on Wednesday covering millions of tenants, the biggest step yet in a surge of initiatives to address an affordable-housing crunch nationwide. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-25/the-new-normal-after-the-coronavirus-pandemic https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-25/the-new-normal-after-the-coronavirus-pandemic Thu, 25 Jun 2020 05:01:42 GMT A worker wearing a protective mask gives a customer a manicure behind a protective barrier at a nail salon in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 22, 2020. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday announced the loosening of restrictions that allows certain businesses to reopen with restrictions and activities to resume with safety precautions as part of the phase two of reopening in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-19/cities-will-survive-pandemics-and-protests https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-19/cities-will-survive-pandemics-and-protests Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:01:15 GMT NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 18: Dawn breaks over Manhattan as the city struggles to contain the number of coronavirus cases on March 18, 2020 in New York City. Across the city businesses, schools and places of work have been shutting down leading to empty streets and quiet neighborhoods. New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has threatened to call for a 'shelter-in-place' order as Manhattan continues to see a rise in cases of the virus. World wide, 200,000 people have now contracted COVID-19. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-07/workforces-in-these-cities-have-highest-covid-19-risk https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-07/workforces-in-these-cities-have-highest-covid-19-risk Tue, 07 Apr 2020 12:26:53 GMT Supermarket workers are among the most vulnerable. (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg)