Richard Florida on the Resiliency of Cities

Episode Thirty-Nine

BY BETSY GARDNER • APRIL 26, 2023

April 26, 2023
Project on Municipal Innovation

In this episode, hear an exclusive speech by author, professor, and renowned urbanist Richard Florida with a bonus Q&A on the relationship between remote work and housing prices, downtown revitalization, and myths about the future of cities. At a recent event held at Harvard University, Florida spoke to the chiefs of staff and deputy mayors of 30 large US cities, all members of our Project on Municipal Innovation network. Today we're releasing the audio of that speech with a bonus question and answer session.

Listen below, or wherever you get your podcasts to hear Florida talk about the way the pandemic spread the housing unaffordability crisis, why cities must stop chasing businesses to the bottom, and beliefs he's rethinking about the future of cities in this exclusive episode. Transcript available here.

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Betsy Gardner

Betsy Gardner is the editor of Data-Smart City Solutions and the producer of the Data-Smart City Pod. Prior to joining the Ash Center, Betsy worked in a variety of roles in higher education, focusing on deconstructing racial and gender inequality through research, writing, and facilitation. She also researched government spending and transparency at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Betsy holds a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Policy from Northeastern University, a bachelor’s degree in Art History from Boston University, and a graduate certificate in Digital Storytelling from the Harvard Extension School.