Richard Florida

The New Urban Crisis

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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 as gentrification, unaffordability, segregation, and inequality rise. Here Florida, a Professor at the University of Toronto and Senior Editor at The Atlantic offers a compelling diagnosis of our economic ills and a bold prescription for more inclusive cities capable of ensuring growth and prosperity for all.