What makes a Fast City? It starts with opportunity. Not just bald economic capacity, but a culture that nurtures creative action and game-changing enterprise. Fast Cities are places where entrepreneurs and employees alike can maximize their potential--where the number of patents filed is high, for instance, or where the high-tech sector is expanding.
The second component: innovation. Fast Cities invest in physical, cultural, and intellectual infrastructure that will sustain growth. "The real forces for change in America and around the world are the mayors and the local communities," says Florida, now a professor of public policy at George Mason University.
Finally, Fast Cities have energy, that ethereal thing that happens when creative people collect in one place. The indicators can seem obscure: number of ethnic restaurants, or the ratio of live-music lovers to cable-TV subscribers. But they point to environments where fresh thinking stimulates action and, by the way, attracts new talent in a virtuous cycle of creativity.
Creative Class Meccas
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Los Angeles, California
- Mumbai, India
Global Villages
- Boulder, Colorado
- Seattle, Washington
R&D Clusters
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Rochester, Minnesota
- Tokyo, Japan
Green Leaders
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Sacramento, California
- Tallahassee, Florida
High-Tech Hot Spots
- Des Moines, Iowa
- San Diego, California
Urban Innovators
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Culture Centers
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Omaha, Nebraska
Unexpected Oases
- St. Petersburg, Russia
Startup Hubs
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Bozeman, Montana
- Beijing, China
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