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The New Urban Crisis

The New Urban Crisis

by Richard Florida (Author)

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    Hardcover 2016

    $6.59
Synopsis


In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth of the world's superstar cities also generate their vexing challenges: gentrification, unaffordability, segregation, and inequality. Meanwhile, many more cities still stagnate, and middle-class neighborhoods everywhere are disappearing. Our winner-take-all cities are just one manifestation of a profound crisis in today's urbanized knowledge economy.

A bracingly original work of research and analysis, The New Urban Crisis offers a compelling diagnosis of our economic ills and a bold prescription for more inclusive cities capable of ensuring growth and prosperity for all.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 336
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
Published: 13 Oct 2016
ISBN 10: 0465079741
ISBN 13: 9780465079742

Media Reviews
Like the superstar cities it describes, this book is dense, complex and stimulating. Florida's well-researched and fluent expos of inequality is a wake-up call to all the major actors engaged in planning, designing and managing cities in the 21st century.
--Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, London School of Economics
Richard Florida offers a brilliant assessment of the varied and evolving challenges facing our cities today. At a time when cities are more important than ever to our economic and political future, The New Urban Crisis is essential reading for urban leaders and all city-dwellers. --Richard M. Daley, former mayor of Chicago
The New Urban Crisis bracingly confronts [the] tension between big-city elites and the urban underclass. --Wall Street Journal
[Richard Florida] vividly expose[s] how gentrification, followed by rising housing costs, concentrated affluence, and glaring inequality has pushed the displaced into deteriorating suburbs far from mass transit, employment, services, and decent schools.... [The New Urban Crisis is] nuanced and proposes solutions. --Washington Post
Florida draws subtle, thoughtful inferences from his research, and he writes in slick, approachable prose.... Throughout, the author remains an idealistic, perceptive observer of cities' transformations. A sobering account of inequality and spatial conflict rising against a cultural backdrop of urban change.
--Kirkus Reviews
Urban planners should consider the case being made for the need to address a new urban crisis. A thought-provoking work for those interested in all stages of urban planning and placemaking.
--Library Journal
The New Urban Crisis deserves to stand alongside Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century as an essential diagnosis of our contemporary ills, and a clear-eyed prescription of how to cure them. --Steven Johnson
Richard Florida demonstrates again that he is one of the most discerning (and provocative) observers of the great metropolitan migrations of the past 60 years.
--Governor John Hickenlooper, Colorado
Cites are engines for prosperity and progress, but it's essential that the benefits extend far and wide. Florida proposes promising ideas for building stronger cities that offer greater opportunities for all. --Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City
Richard Florida is the great pioneer thinker who first explained how the influx of creative people was reviving cities. Now he takes the next step: looking for ways to make this urbanism more inclusive. --Walter Isaacson
This is the book we have been waiting for. Richard Florida is the greatest American urbanist of our time....This is an indispensable read for policy makers, students, educators, and all urban dwellers alike.
--Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles
A sweeping narrative of the most significant human movement of our times: global urbanization. Richard Florida lays out with unassailable facts and clear vision the convergence of an urgent human development--the drive for more livable cities and the quest for a more sustainable planet. Clear, compelling, and full of vision.
--Governor Martin O'Malley, Maryland
The New Urban Crisis is well worth reading for the original research, clear-headed critique, and the skilled analysis of solid data. --New York Journal of Books
The New Urban Crisis is underpinned by reams of data breezily and readably presented. --Miami Herald
Author Bio
Richard Florida is university professor and director of cities at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, a distinguished visiting fellow at NYU's Schack Institute of Real Estate, and the cofounder and editor-at-large of the Atlantic's CityLab.