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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It Hardcover – April 11, 2017

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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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"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 bracingly confronts [the] tension between big-city elites and the urban underclass."―Wall Street Journal

"[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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Like the superstar cities it describes, this book is dense, complex and stimulating. Florida's well-researched and fluent exposé 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

"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

"The New Urban Crisis is underpinned by reams of data breezily and readably presented."―Miami Herald

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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Basic Books; 1st edition (April 11, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0465079741
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0465079742
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches

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Author of the bestselling The Rise of the Creative Class and Who's Your City? Richard Florida is a regular columnist for The Atlantic. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and other publications. His multiple awards and accolades include the Harvard Business Review's Breakthrough Idea of the Year. He was named one of Esquire magazine's Best and Brightest (2005) and one of BusinessWeek's Voices of Innovation (2006). He lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Great book

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2023

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I read this book for a presentation project for my Global Health class. Let’s just say I got a 98 on my presentation!

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Mostly OK but could profitably have been 50 pages shorter

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2017

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This book is a perfectly respectable magazine article stretched into an adequate but somewhat less brilliant book. Many of his key points are (to me) common sense: housing prices in some metro areas are out of control, zoning is partially responsible, the problem isn't limited to suburbs, and there's a lot of segregation out there.

What I liked the most: Florida complies lots of factual data, and here and there makes a point that is actually interesting. For example:
1. he notes that housing prices have grown by 3.5 percent per year in San Francisco since 1950- more than twice the national average.
2. Florida discusses the toxic impact of land use regulation that limits the housing supply; for example, he cites one study suggesting if everyone who wanted to live in cities like San Francisco and New York could afford to live there, the resulting wage increase would add 13.5 percent to America's GDP.
3. The conventional wisdom is that high housing costs make high-cost metros a bad deal. Florida suggests that (especially for the upper and upper middle classes) the benefits of higher wages outweigh this cost. After housing costs, the average worker has $42,120 left over in New York, and just over $26,000 left over in low-cost Las Vegas. However, this impact varies by class: in the "creative class" (Florida's term for high-income workers) the New Yorker comes out $18,000 ahead, but for the low-wage "service class" the New Yorker only comes out $3,000 ahead. For what's left of the industrial working class, New York only comes out $240 ahead (which I suspect is canceled out by New York's higher taxes).
4. Ch. 7 includes lots of charts and maps showing how metro areas vary. In high-cost, prosperous New York and San Francisco both cities and suburbs have rich areas and poor areas. But in other regions, suburbia has the lion's share of regional wealth. Despite all the public discussion of gentrification, there is no metro area where wealth is concentrated in cities.
Like many liberals, Florida complains about inequality. He writes that inequality "can be, and often is, a drag on economic growth." But a page later he writes: "very few US cities or metro areas have been able to combine high levels of economic growth with low levels of inequality." I'm not sure how these positions fit together.
The last two chapters are the weakest and probably should have been left for another book. In his chapter on global urbanization, he writes that for much of the developing world, "urbanization has been a near total failure." But after showing that even third-world cities are more productive than their rural neighbors, he writes just five pages later: "urbanization, warts and all, is better than the alternative." I am not sure how these statements fit together.
His last chapter is a hodgepodge of tax-and-spend remedies. Unlike extreme progressives, he does not favor huge increases in government regulation; for example, he is skeptical of rent control and favors new housing construction. But unlike conservatives he favors a more generous welfare state and a higher minimum wage. These issues are sufficiently complex that Florida probably should have left them for his next book rather than giving them cursory treatment in this one.

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Interesting insights

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2019

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For those who enjoy a conversational style of writing (thus, in the first-person), may find the depth of analysis a little easier to understand than might otherwise be the case. For those with a global perspective, the dominance of United States urban analysis might be a little disappointing. Nevertheless, conclusions from the particular (inductive reasoning), have some application generally. He suggests that the most successful metropolitan areas were those that excelled in the '3Ts of economic development; technology, talent and tolerance (p.xv). He then goes on to analyse three clusters of workers; knowledge-based, blue collar and service worker (p.xviii). He presents five dimensions to the New Urban Crisis (pp.6-8). He then offers seven interventions to help overcome this new crisis (p.11). The lack of housing supply is hampered by the New Urban Luddism of 'the enormous and complex thicket of zoning laws...that restrict the supply of housing in many cities (p.21). Outside that author's analysis: London has not expanded spatially in the past two decades but has absorbed over one million more people. One (of many) reason(s) for the lack of housing supply there is the planning restrictions. One consequence is increased housing prices compared with the rest of UK and ordinary people being "priced out of the market" and therefore priced out of where the want to live. Another factor for ordinary people being priced or pushed out is that of gentrification (pp.59...). The formerly comparatively static picture of town planning must now embrace a much more dynamic and holistic approach to the urban challenge. He cites three waves of urbanisation; the third 'and even bigger wave will be the coming of urbanisation in Africa' (p.169). He makes a plea for investment in infastructure 'for density and growth' (p.195). He identifies two approaches to tackling poverty; people based (ultimately, to increase incomes) and place-based approaches (tackling areas lacking infrastructure and basic services thus reducing multiple deprivation). Apart from stressing often, the knowledge-based success of successful cities, they mask the inequalities - the disadvantaged blue-collar and service workers. To be an economist is in common parlance. To be an urbanist, is not. It needs to be in order inculcate a notion of urban thinking that understands not only the dynamic analysis through systems thinking but also, the resulting inter-connected interventions that are vital to successful urban futures. If this book raises awareness of a new 'urbanist' perspective, that would be helpful.

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Important Study of Urban Inequality

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2021

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Some 80% of Americans live in cities, most of which are increasingly divided by class and ethnicity. Where I live, in Silicon Valley, corporate-government development projects are exacerbating century-long spatial inequities that have created a grown underclass. Florida maps the economic and political history of this crisis, from redlining in the 1920s, to deed covenants that excluded people of color through the 1960s, to gentrification from the 1980s onwards, providing extensive data to illustrate both the roots of crisis and its impacts. Among the most important and provocative findings in the book is the counterintuitive reality of more liberal cities, where affluent voters would *seem* to more inclined to support progressive urban growth policies that reduce poverty, housing costs, and homelessness, having greater inequity of income, education, environmental quality, etc. Importantly, the book concludes with recommendations for "urbanism for all" that should be starting points for conversation and action by citizens, community organizers, and government leaders. Because the book is highly readable, with fairly limited technical jargon, one would hope it increases awareness and action among ordinary urbanites beyond narrow circles of policy-makers.

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Freddy M.

Great book

Reviewed in Mexico on July 27, 2022

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Nice book

Adrian Rodarte

Buen libro

Reviewed in Mexico on February 14, 2022

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Un libro más al estante.

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Oriol Miralbell

Florida is putting critical view on the forefront of economic urban analysis.

Reviewed in Spain on May 15, 2017

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Adding new insights to the urban transformation and the consequences of an increasing inequality in urban periferia towards an exclusive accessibility to the reach in the central metropolitan areas. Claims such as innovation does not always foster economic progress in cities, since the attraction of skilled professionals usually increases inequality which, on its turn affects negatively economic progress.

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Alexis Zecua

This is an excellent book for people studying urbanism.

Reviewed in Mexico on June 12, 2019

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Richard Florida is one of the best urban experts in the academic world. He really understands what is happening in almost all aspects of a city. This book is a must if you are studying urbanism because it gives you a better understanding of how cities affect the people who live in.

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Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada on May 25, 2017

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Our son has enjoyed this book.

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