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The New Urban Crisis Lib/E: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-And What We Can Do about Library Edition
Contributor(s): Florida, Richard (Author), Burns, Traber (Read by)
ISBN: 1538451190     ISBN-13: 9781538451199
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $68.40  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: June 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
- Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
 
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Publisher Description:

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.


Contributor Bio(s): Burns, Traber: -

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

Florida, Richard: -

Richard Florida is a regular columnist for the Atlantic. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and other publications. His multiple awards and accolades include the Harvard Business Review's Breakthrough Idea of the Year. He was named one of Esquire magazine's Best and Brightest (2005) and one of Businessweek's Voices of Innovation (2006). He lives in Toronto, Canada.