 Several critics noted that Florida sounded too eager to coin terms and that some of the pop cultural references and anecdotes were awkward . Environmental psychologist Michael Dudley pointed out copy @-@ editing errors such as misspellings , and complained that Florida ignored existing literature on the topic of the connections between personalities and places . Likewise , Tom Hutton in the journal Economic Geography noted the absence of influential academics Allen Scott and Peter Hall in the text . The reviewer in The Chronicle of Higher Education found the chapter that examined the Big Five personality traits to be the best part of the book . In The Globe and Mail , reviewer Joe Berridge wrote , " Like all self @-@ help books , it suffers from the assertive blandness of soft <unk> " , but called Who 's Your City ? an " informative , insightful , imaginative book " . Reviewer Nathan Glazer in The New Republic commented on the inappropriate urban area conglomerations like Delhi – Lahore , and geographical scales such as metropolitan areas . Steve Sailer of The American Conservative wrote a negative review and called Florida 's conclusions " professionally cautious " so that they would not harm his consulting career . The review in the Library Journal recommended the book for all libraries and stated that " Although the text is occasionally overloaded with trendy demographic jargon , this thought @-@ provoking and seminal work will surely be studied , not only by scholars but ... by consumers pondering a move " . 
