New York

Finance and the City

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Richard Florida examines the new geography of finance within the United States. What about the role of finance in the geography of cities?

Behind the noise: New York City

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When I arrived in New York at the end of August to begin my field research on graduate programs in quantitative finance, I was struck by the overall level noise of the city. I knew that New York was loud – I had lived there for six years – but I had just how many individual sounds contribute to the the white noise of the city's streets.