Floridisation

English

Noun

Floridisation (uncountable)

(British spelling) Alternative spelling of Floridization
- 1986, Australian Book Review, Melbourne, Vic.: National Book Council, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 3:
  [T]he bland refusal of public accountability which has allowed unparalleled extravagance in the provision of space, furniture, fittings and accoutrements for the Parliament while leaving schools ill-equipped and underprovided; and it does not record the results of the ‘Floridisation’ policy [...]
- 2002 September 26, “Is America moving leftward?”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 364, London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 98:
  Indeed, another plausible view is the Floridisation of American politics, the idea that it is now in an exact two-party balance.
- 2005, The Asian Economic Review, volume 47, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh: Indian Institute of Economics, →OCLC, page 1:
  The greatest twin victory of humanity over health issues has delivered one of the greatest challenges to man: Population ageing. Often described as ‘Floridisation of the World’, population ageing is the outcome of man’s victory over death and deceases as well as unwanted child bearing [...].
- 2010, Andrew Tallon, “Urban Competitiveness”, in Urban Regeneration in the UK, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 120:
  A number of critics of Florida's creative class thesis have argued that it is an insufficient basis for urban competitiveness and that attention is deflected away from lower social groups [...] Finally, the numbers of people who make up the creative class in a city are relatively small compared with the wider economy, and might therefore represent a small contribution to a city’s growth and competitiveness. Pursuit of the ‘Floridisation’ of cities should be treated with caution [...].
- 2017 March 18, Nathaniel Manheru, “2018: Sifting real issues from so much chaff”, in The Herald‎^[2], Harare, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2019:
  Taking after what America did to [Fidel] Castro's Cuba, since 2000, we have witnessed a trend towards "Floridisation" of Zimbabwean politics, which is to say an attempt to encourage an outbound movement of Zimbabwean nationals in the hope of creating a critical voting mass that can be relied upon to capture the Zimbabwean State, Hamid Karzai-style.