# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-florida
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:20:59.508Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-florida"
name: "Richard Florida"
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description: "Richard L. Florida is an American urban studies theorist and writer best known for his seminal description of the creative class. He focuses on economic and social theory as a distinguished professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and School of Cities. He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 1987 to 2004 before teaching at George Mason University from 2004 to 2007 and subsequently moving to the University of Toronto."
tagline: "American urban studies theorist"
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birthDate: "1957-11-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump