THE NEW URBAN CRISIS/ HOW OUR CITIES ARE INCREASING INEQUALITY, DEEPENING SEGREGATION

n recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decli ne. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this b ack-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growt h of the world's superstar cities also generate their vexing challenges: gentrification, unaffordability, segregation, and inequalit y. Meanw...[Llegir més]