| Description |
310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The new urban crisis -- Winner-take-all urbanism -- City of elites -- Gentrification and its discontents -- The inequality of cities -- The bigger sort -- Patchwork metropolis -- Suburban crisis -- The crisis of global urbanization -- Urbanism for all. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject(S) |
Urbanization -- United States.
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Urban policy -- United States.
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Equality -- United States.
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Sociology, Urban -- United States.
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| Added Title |
How our cities are increasing inequality, deepening segregation, and failing the middle class-- and what we can do about it |
| ISBN |
9780465079742 (hardcover) |
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0465079741 (hardcover) |
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