Georgio Goes Journo April 2008
Our angry young hero--didn't you know he moonlights as a man of letters?-- has recently contributed a lengthy article to Chicago's Fall of Autumn blasting Dr Richard Florida and his regional development racket in the strongest possible terms. For those unaware, Florida has been milking the book and lecture circuit for some years now by proposing that the post-industrial age belongs to those metropolitan areas most densely populated with pretentious yuppies. His ill-deserved celebrity suggests that the marketplace of ideas, although ostensibly far removed from that of base commodities, is no less susceptible to gimmicks and shysters. Read me.