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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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• Preface(p. xi)
• 1 The Urban Contradiction(p. 1)
• 2 Winner-Take-All Urbanism(p. 13)
• 3 City of Elites(p. 35)
• 4 Gentrification and Its Discontents(p. 57)
• 5 The Inequality of Cities(p. 79)
• 6 The Bigger Sort(p. 97)
• 7 Patchwork Metropolis(p. 121)
• 8 Suburban Crisis(p. 151)
• 9 The Crisis of Global Urbanization(p. 167)
• 10 Urbanism for All(p. 185)
• Appendix(p. 217)
• Acknowledgments(p. 241)
• Notes(p. 245)
• Index(p. 293)

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Library Journal Review

There is a new urban crisis impacting cities and suburbs, maintains Florida (director, Martin Prosperity Inst., Univ. of Toronto; The Rise of the Creative Class). The author considers such issues as increasing inequality, rising housing prices, economic and racial segregation, spatial inequality, and entrenched poverty. He concludes that a "winner-take-all urbanism" is creating a growing gulf between "superstar cities" that have high concentrations of talented people and economic resources, and areas that do not. This "clustering force" is seen as creating "areas of concentrated affluence and concentrated poverty," and leading to the shrinking of middle-class neighborhoods. Florida offers several solutions, along with supporting documentation, that will ensure growth and prosperity for a larger segment of the population. Some of these ideas include building more affordable rental housing in central locations, switching from a property tax to a land value tax, and having the minimum wage reflect the local cost of living. Social theorists may find fault with the conclusions and proposed remedies, but urban planners should consider the case being made for the need to address a new urban crisis. VERDICT A thought-provoking work for those interested in all stages of urban planning and placemaking.-Karen -Venturella Malnati, Union Cty. Coll. Libs, Cranford, NJ © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

Urban studies expert Florida (The Great Reset), who first gained acclaim studying the ascendancy of the "creative class," now explores the broader effects of its rise in this timely, data-rich, and accessible work. Florida notes that while people fare better economically in large, dense cities, those cities are also experiencing rising inequality, housing costs, and economic and racial segregation. Moreover, these problems are spreading to the suburbs, the onetime model for improved living standards. These divisions are particularly strong in "superstar cities" such as New York, San Francisco, and London, where concentrated wealth makes the urban core inaccessible to all but the most privileged people. A series of maps show how service workers' neighborhoods have been steadily pushed to the periphery. This worrisome dynamic isn't confined to North America and Western Europe, as Florida's research shows. He recommends changing tax schemes to reflect the value of urban land, rather than the property developed on top of it; intensifying support for mass transit; increasing affordable rental housing in urban core areas; and focusing on schools and better wage conditions in the poorest neighborhoods. These prescriptions are all sound but-in the current political climate-particularly difficult to achieve. Agent: Jim Levine, Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

CHOICE Review

In 2002, Florida wrote The Rise of the Creative Class, in which he argued that the answer to urban ills was not giving tax breaks to big corporations but attracting creative people back to the cities. Fifteen years later, Florida concedes that creative people have returned to so-called superstar cities and that a rising tide has not raised all boats. Instead, the return of the creative class has created even greater inequality, as the "super-rich" are attracted to and invest in superstar cities (he identifies about 20, with New York and London being the leaders) and technology hubs, such as San Francisco, driving out the poor and middle class, who can no longer afford to live in the urban core. He even expresses concern that the creative class is beginning to be driven from these cities as they are no longer affordable. This "new urban crisis," he believes, can be alleviated only by building affordable housing, improving mass transit, and raising wages. Though Florida offers a good analysis of the crisis, the solutions suggested are not likely (as he seems to acknowledge) to be part of the new administration's agenda. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through faculty. --Jeffrey Fred Kraus, Wagner College

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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.