The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-And What We Can Do about

by Richard Florida and Professor of Management and Public Policy H John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management Ri

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465079741
• ISBN13: 9780465079742
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"