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The great reset : how new ways of living and working drive post-crash prosperity / Richard Florida.

By: Florida, Richard L.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Harper, 2010Edition: 1st ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-214) and index.Description: x, 225 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780061937194 (hardback); 0061937193 (hardback).Subject(s): Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | United States -- Economic policy -- 2009-DDC classification: 330.973 Other classification: 71.42
Contents:
The great reset -- The crisis most like our own -- Urbanism as innovation -- The most technologically progressive decade -- Suburban solution -- The fix is in -- Unraveling -- Capital of capital -- Who's next? -- Fire starter -- Big government boomtowns -- Death and life of great industrial cities -- Northern light -- Sun sets on the sunbelt -- The reset economy -- Good job machine -- The new normal -- The great resettle -- Big, fast, and green -- The velocity of you -- Faster than a speeding bullet -- Renting the dream -- Resetting point.
Summary: "From the author of the bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class, a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008-09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to "reset," and, in doing so, paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography will look like--of how we will work and live--in the future"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-214) and index.

The great reset -- The crisis most like our own -- Urbanism as innovation -- The most technologically progressive decade -- Suburban solution -- The fix is in -- Unraveling -- Capital of capital -- Who's next? -- Fire starter -- Big government boomtowns -- Death and life of great industrial cities -- Northern light -- Sun sets on the sunbelt -- The reset economy -- Good job machine -- The new normal -- The great resettle -- Big, fast, and green -- The velocity of you -- Faster than a speeding bullet -- Renting the dream -- Resetting point.

"From the author of the bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class, a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008-09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to "reset," and, in doing so, paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography will look like--of how we will work and live--in the future"--Provided by publisher.

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