Authors@Google: Richard Florida (Who's Your City, The Rise of the Creative Class)
 

If you don't already know about it, you should definitely check out Google's Talks channel on Youtube. Lots of great stuff there. I just watched this one and found it rather interesting (of course, I was interested in beforehand, so that helps). It's about an hour long.

He recently moved to Toronto to take a job at the Rothman School of Management. I've been reading his columns in the Globe and Mail (a national daily newspaper) as well as his blog (http://creativeclass.com/).

I am still trying to decide how I feel about his ideas but on the whole I've liked most of what he as to say.