Creativity as a foundation of urban innovation economies

Cities are facing a fundamental reset of how people work, live, shop, and go about our everyday lives. This reset, as Richard Florida, one of the world’s leading experts on the creative class and its relationship to urban economics, said at The Kinder Institute Forum, affords us a “once in a century opportunity to reimagine and build better communities and workplaces.”

As Houston’s innovation leaders, we must reimagine how our communities and workplaces sustain creative talent. These human…