{"id":274,"date":"2008-05-13T09:24:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/274"},"modified":"2008-05-13T07:51:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T13:51:23","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-may-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/274","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8211; May 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/whosyourcity.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Who's Your City\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who&#8217;s Your City<\/strong>:<br \/>\nHow the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life<br \/>\nby Richard Florida<br \/>\nGF21 .F56 2008<br \/>\n<strong>New Book Island<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to a guy with the last name Florida to write a book about where to live. All jokes aside, Dr. Florida, Professor of Business &amp; Creativity at the University of Toronto, examines how deciding where to live tops the list of most critical choices in one&#8217;s life. As the author contends, globalization has opened up the world, but where you live directly affects every other aspect of your life. He introduces the concept of &#8220;mega-regions,&#8221; which &#8220;range in size from 5 to more than 100 million people and produce hundreds of billions&mdash;sometimes trillions&mdash;in economic output.&#8221; This well-researched book contains a wealth of information and top places to call home for every stage of your life. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativeclass.com\/whos_your_city\/\">book&#8217;s companion website<\/a> offers a brief snapshot of Florida&#8217;s research if you don&#8217;t feel like reading the entire book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s Your City: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida GF21 .F56 2008 New Book Island, 2nd floor Leave it to a guy with the last name Florida &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}