The New Urban Crisis
How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-- and What We Can Do About It
Book - 2017
Baker & Taylor
The Atlantic senior editor presents a follow-up to The Rise of the Creative Class to explore how today's creative economy is affecting gentrification, inequality and segregation in the world's major cities. 40,000 first printing.
Perseus Publishing
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.
One of the world’s leading urbanists confronts the dark side of the back-to-the-city movement.
Baker
& Taylor
The "Atlantic" senior editor explores how the modern creative economy is affecting gentrification, inequality, and segregation in the world's major cities.
The Atlantic senior editor presents a follow-up to The Rise of the Creative Class to explore how today's creative economy is affecting gentrification, inequality and segregation in the world's major cities. 40,000 first printing.
Perseus Publishing
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.
One of the world’s leading urbanists confronts the dark side of the back-to-the-city movement.
Baker
& Taylor
The "Atlantic" senior editor explores how the modern creative economy is affecting gentrification, inequality, and segregation in the world's major cities.
Publisher:
New York :, Basic Books,, [2017]
ISBN:
9780465079742
0465079741
0465079741
Characteristics:
xx, 310 pages ; 25 cm


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Add a CommentUrban Sociology fascinates me. I especially love this book because it offers solutions. Not that I think we will necessarily ever get to the solutions, we shall see...
a book for the contemporary urban and suburban dweller with some suggestions I hope mayors and counsellers follow