Location, location, location

As any interested parties have surely already learned, Richard Florida has been promoting his most recent book, Who's Your City. For any of you who don't already know, Florida has written a series of interesting books describing how the current job market and socio-political climate is largely shaped by individuals congregating in parts of the country that they find appealing - e.g. adventurous software engineers and scientists heading to the Bay Area. I've enjoyed many of his past books and plan to read this one too when it hits the library. The website I linked to above has some neat maps showing where certain types of people are accumulating. On a related note, Robert Cushing's book describes how this may be intensifying red state vs. blue state politics in The Big Sort.

As per usual, I heard it on NPR.