What Is the World's Most Economically Powerful City?
To kick off The Atlantic's new special report on the past and future of the world's global capitals, we ask: What city rules them all? More »
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Richard Florida is Senior Editor at The Atlantic and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto. See his most recent writing at The Atlantic Cities. More
Florida is author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Who's Your City?, and The Great Reset. He is founder of the Creative Class Group.
To kick off The Atlantic's new special report on the past and future of the world's global capitals, we ask: What city rules them all? More »
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