The New Urban Crisis: Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality, and What We Can Do About It

ISBN-13: 9781786074010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str.

Richard Florida

Opis

Cities are both the engines of innovation and the seedbeds of inequality - how can we keep what' s good and break free of the bad?

Our cities drive innovation and growth, but they also propel us into housing crises and give rise to ever-greater inequality, as the super-rich displace the well-off, and the workers who run our essential services are ghettoised and pushed out to the suburbs. There is a New Urban Crisis, and it is undermining the foundations of our society. In this bracingly original work of research and analysis, leading urbanist Richard Florida demonstrates how our cities are evolving in the twenty-first century, for good and for ill. From the world' s superstar metropolises to the urban slums of the developing world, he shows how the crisis touches all of us, and sets out how we can make our cities more inclusive, ensuring prosperity for all.

Recenzje

'Richard Florida is the great pioneer thinker who first explained how the influx of creative people was reviving cities...[he] takes a hard look at the problems and, as usual, comes up with some smart new policies.'

Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of The Innovators

O autorze

Richard Florida is director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and a global research professor at New York University. He is also the author of The Rise of the Creative Class , founder of the Creative Class Group and co-founder of The Atlantic 's CityLab.