
The New Urban Crisis
How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class - and What We Can Do About It
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Traber Burns
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Richard Florida
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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Lacking in equity analysis
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Moderately interesting - but nothing new
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Good story but
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Change in urban development ideology.
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I agree with his assessment 70%, the 30% I see differently. But overall the book is good.
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My final advocacy is that urban agriculture and token economics are the way to build a social a social ladder out of poverty. It is akin to how we seed rain by releasing silver into the air for water to condense around, so too urban agriculture and the kitchens to prepare and consume, seed community, which is truly what we need more than unstructured density which seemingly is what Florida would have, but maybe not. $0.02 from an Austin Texas land planner.
Nodes are better than core
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Missing important aspects of book
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Well done, comprehensive, and informative
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This book does not give a compelling account of the political dynamics that forced the poor into poor areas and helped the wealthy wall-off rich areas. It does not effectively describe the economic dynamics that make clustered firms more competitive, It fails to give a detailed description of any path for local and national policy to break the deadlock held by NIMBY residents. This book failed to be both descriptive and prescriptive in an interesting and meaningful way.
Poor understanding of economics, unisightful
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