Urbanist Richard Florida on the future of U.S. cities after the pandemic

We have a special episode of the GeekWire Podcast this week: GeekWire Contributing Editor Monica Nickelsburg spoke with urbanist Richard Florida at the Crosscut Festival.

Richard Florida is one of the world’s leading urbanists. He is a professor at the University of Toronto and a Faculty Chair at NYU’s Schack School of Real Estate. Florida is the author of “The Rise of the Creative Class.” He is also the co-founder of CityLab.

Monica and Richard talk about the future of U.S. cities and life after the pandemic: Will the new culture of remote work doom big cities?  Why are tech entrepreneurs moving from traditional liberal cities to places like Texas and Florida?  Will big cities like Seattle and San Francisco be able to recover and grow once the pandemic ends … if it ever does?

And much, much more.

It’s a lively discussion about issues that people in Seattle and elsewhere are talking about.

A big thanks to GeekWire and Crosscut sponsors Davis Wright Tremaine and Sea.citi for helping to make this podcast possible. 

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