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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.

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The New Urban Crisis is underpinned by reams of data breezily and readably presented. --Miami Herald Like the superstar cities it describes, this book is dense, complex and stimulating. Florida's well-researched and fluent expos of inequality is a wake-up call to all the major actors engaged in planning, designing and managing cities in the 21st century. --Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, London School of Economics This is the book we have been waiting for. Richard Florida is the greatest American urbanist of our time....This is an indispensable read for policy makers, students, educators, and all urban dwellers alike. --Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles Richard Florida is the great pioneer thinker who first explained how the influx of creative people was reviving cities. Now he takes the next step: looking for ways to make this urbanism more inclusive. --Walter Isaacson Richard Florida demonstrates again that he is one of the most discerning (and provocative) observers of the great metropolitan migrations of the past 60 years. --Governor John Hickenlooper, Colorado Urban planners should consider the case being made for the need to address a new urban crisis. A thought-provoking work for those interested in all stages of urban planning and placemaking. --Library Journal Florida draws subtle, thoughtful inferences from his research, and he writes in slick, approachable prose.... Throughout, the author remains an idealistic, perceptive observer of cities' transformations. A sobering account of inequality and spatial conflict rising against a cultural backdrop of urban change. --Kirkus Reviews [Richard Florida] vividly expose[s] how gentrification, followed by rising housing costs, concentrated affluence, and glaring inequality has pushed the displaced into deteriorating suburbs far from mass transit, employment, services, and decent schools.... [The New Urban Crisis is] nuanced and proposes solutions. --Washington Post Richard Florida offers a brilliant assessment of the varied and evolving challenges facing our cities today. At a time when cities are more important than ever to our economic and political future, The New Urban Crisis is essential reading for urban leaders and all city-dwellers. --Richard M. Daley, former mayor of Chicago The New Urban Crisis is well worth reading for the original research, clear-headed critique, and the skilled analysis of solid data. --New York Journal of Books A sweeping narrative of the most significant human movement of our times: global urbanization. Richard Florida lays out with unassailable facts and clear vision the convergence of an urgent human development--the drive for more livable cities and the quest for a more sustainable planet. Clear, compelling, and full of vision. --Governor Martin O'Malley, Maryland Cites are engines for prosperity and progress, but it's essential that the benefits extend far and wide. Florida proposes promising ideas for building stronger cities that offer greater opportunities for all. --Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City The New Urban Crisis deserves to stand alongside Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century as an essential diagnosis of our contemporary ills, and a clear-eyed prescription of how to cure them. --Steven Johnson The New Urban Crisis bracingly confronts [the] tension between big-city elites and the urban underclass. --Wall Street Journal

Startling and illuminating. --Architectural Record The New Urban Crisis is well worth reading for the original research, clear-headed critique and the skilled analysis of solid data.... Florida writes in personally positioned transparent language without taking refuge in academic jargon, making the book accessible to a broad audience. --New York Journal of Books A sweeping narrative of the most significant human movement of our times--global urbanization. Richard Florida lays out with unassailable facts and clear vision the convergence of an urgent human development--the drive for more livable cities and the quest for a more sustainable planet. Clear, compelling, and full of vision. --Governor Martin O'Malley Cites are engines for prosperity and progress, but it's essential that the benefits extend far and wide. Florida proposes promising ideas for building stronger cities that offer greater opportunities for all. --Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City The New Urban Crisis provides a tidy, timely summary of the current urban problem, in all its enormity. --California Planning & Development Report The New Urban Crisis is underpinned by reams of data breezily and readably presented. --Miami Herald Florida lands on an intriguing mix of policy prescriptions for dealing with the new urban crisis. --Insider Higher Ed Startling and illuminating. --Architectural Record The New Urban Crisis bracingly confronts this tension between big-city elites and the urban underclass. --Wall Street Journal The New Urban Crisis deserves to stand alongside Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century as an essential diagnosis of our contemporary illus, and a clear-eyed prescription of how to cure them. --Steven Johnson Richard Florida demonstrates again that he is one of the most discerning (and provocative) observers of the great metropolitan migrations of the past 60 years. Using masses of carefully curated demographic data, he identifies the winners and losers of the widespread 'urban resurgence' of the past couple of decades. His observations are disquieting on many levels, and Florida doesn't shy away from proposing bold and sometimes costly solutions. The New Urban Crisis is certain to be one of the most widely debated books of the year. -Governor John Hickenlooper, Colorado I loved The New Urban Crisis. Richard Florida writes about the tensions and the divides that have emerged within and between cities, between the broader community--and I felt it throughout the book and loved it. --Steve Clemons, Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic Urban planners should consider the case being made for the need to address a new urban crisis. A thought-provoking work for those interested in all stages of urban planning and placemaking. --Library Journal Florida draws subtle, thoughtful inferences from his research, and he writes in slick, approachable prose...Throughout, the author remains an idealistic, perceptive observer of cities' transformations. A sobering account of inequality and spatial conflict rising against a cultural backdrop of urban change. --Kirkus Reviews [Richard Florida] vividly expose[s] how gentrification, followed by rising housing costs, concentrated affluence and glaring inequality, has pushed the displaced into deteriorating suburbs far from mass transit, employment, services and decent schools.... [The New Urban Crisis is] nuanced and proposes solutions. --The Washington Post

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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.

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