| The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-And What We Can Do about Contributor(s): Florida, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1541644123 ISBN-13: 9781541644120 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development |
| Dewey: 307.760 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.70 lbs) 368 pages |
| 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. |