Floridisation

[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 [...]

1986, Australian Book Review, Melbourne, Vic.: National Book Council, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 3

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 [...].

2005, The Asian Economic Review, volume 47, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh: Indian Institute of Economics, →OCLC, page 1

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 [...].

2010, Andrew Tallon, “Urban Competitiveness”, in Urban Regeneration in the UK, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 120

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.

2017 March 18, Nathaniel Manheru, “2018: Sifting real issues from so much chaff”, in The Herald, Harare, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2019