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The New Urban Crisis
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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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"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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