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[Read by Traber Burns] Richard Florida confronts the dark side of the creative economy he celebrated in The Rise of the Creative Class and grapples with the gentrification, inequality, and segregation it has created in our cities. 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.



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