Richard Florida - From the Creative Class To The Urban Crisis

The Centre for the Future of Places invited Richard Florida, new honorary doctor at KTH, University Professor and Director of Cities, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto; Inaugural Philadelphia Fellow, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, Drexel University; and Founder, Creative Class Group. The author of several global best sellers, Florida also serves as senior editor for The Atlantic, where he co-founded and serves as Editor-at-Large for CityLab.

Professor Florida's lecture "From the Creative Class To The Urban Crisis" was followed by a panel discussion on the topic of the urban crisis.

Panelists were:

• Hans Westlund, professor KTH
• Ola Andersson, architect and debater, Andersson Arfwedson
• Keri Facer, Professor University of Uppsala

Moderator: Tigran Haas, director of the KTH Centre for the Future of Places