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.
"The New Urban Crisis bracingly confronts [the] tension between
big-city elites and the urban underclass."--Wall Street 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
"The New Urban Crisis is underpinned by reams of data breezily and
readably presented."--Miami Herald
"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
"[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
"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
"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
"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
"Like the superstar cities it describes, this book is dense,
complex and stimulating. Florida's well-researched and fluent
expos� 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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
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