The New Urban Crisis
Young, educated, and affluent people have returned to cities in recent years, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. But, as Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis, everything is not well. In his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, Florida, one of the first scholars to predict this back-to-the-city movement, 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 are stagnating, and middle-class areas are vanishing all around the world. Our winner-take-all cities are only one aspect of today's urbanised knowledge economy's deep dilemma.
The New Urban Crisis is a groundbreaking work of research and analysis that provides a persuasive diagnosis of our economic maladies as well as a daring prescription for more inclusive cities capable of assuring progress and prosperity for everyone.
