Why Wasn't New York City Silicon Valley to Begin With?

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 15, 2014

Richard Florida is the Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, a Global Research Professor at NYU and a senior editor at The Atlantic. He traces the roots of why the tech sector grew in the orange groves of California as opposed to the canyons of New York  -- and why he thinks tech is primed to return to cities.

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