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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It - Paperback | Diverse Reads

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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.

ISBN-13: 9781541644120

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Basic Books

Publication Date: 05-08-2018

Pages: 368

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

Richard Florida is university professor in the University of Toronto's School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, a distinguished visiting fellow at NYU's Schack Institute of Real Estate, and the cofounder and editor at large of the Atlantic's CityLab.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

1 The Urban Contradiction 1

2 Winner-Take-All Urbanism 13

3 City of Elites 35

4 Gentrification and Its Discontents 57

5 The Inequality of Cities 79

6 The Bigger Sort 97

7 Patchwork Metropolis 121

8 Suburban Crisis 151

9 The Crisis of Global Urbanization 167

10 Urbanism for All 185

Epilogue to the Paperback Edition 217

Appendix 235

Acknowledgments 259

Notes 263

Index 315