The New Urban Crisis

Posted on 15 January 2017 by Richard Florida

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 Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back to the city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth of the world s superstar cities also generate their vexing challenges gentrification, unaffordability, segregation, and inequality Meanwhile, many cities still stagnate, and middle class neighborhoods everywhere are disappearing Our winner take all cities are just one manifestation of a profound crisis in today s urbanized knowledge economy A bracingly original work of research and analysis, The New Urban Crisis offers a compelling diagnosis of our economic ills and a bold prescription for inclusive cities capable of ensuring growth and prosperity for all. Best Download eBook The New Urban Crisis By Richard Florida – kino-fada.fr I found The New Urban Crisis interesting in parts, although it lacked coherence and credibility I must admit that I am prejudiced against most urban planning, which I believe is often nothingthan utopian social engineering It has been shown to fail again and again, with many disastrous instances in post war Britain, the United States, the Soviet bloc, and around the world Cities have many of the characteristics of living things, and they evolve like them Their residents, businesses, sc I found The New Urban Crisis interesting in parts, although it lacked coherence and credibility I must admit that I am prejudiced against most urban planning, which I believe is often nothingthan utopian social engineering It has been shown to fail again and again, with many disastrous instances in post war Britain, the United States, the Soviet bloc, and around the world Cities have many of the characteristics of living things, and they evolve like them Their residents, businesses, schools, universities, churches, developers, and even local governments respond to the market forces that reflect demand The arrogance of urban planners is that they can do a better job Given the enormous complexity of the urban and suburban systems, that is a foolish delusion.The mish mash of statistical tables is hard to understand, despite interminable explanations, and the charts and maps are largely unreadable The subti...The books is pretty dry, but very important The thesis is pretty jarring we are headed toward cities of elites and suburbs of poverty and isolation This is no surprise really and we ve all seen it coming His solutions at the end are worth paying attention to pay attention to transit,rental housing, better jobs However, he seems to give up on the rest of the country Is it possible to revive some places between suburbs and cities like college towns or other cool places where you can The books is pretty dry, but very important The thesis is pretty jarring we are headed toward cities of elites and suburbs of poverty and isolation This ...I want to be careful here this book is a classic, a necessary reference for this point in time, but it is also a slog, a college text type statistical brick and was not that fun to read I feel like it was good for me, but it doesn t mean I really enjoyed it Kind of like working out But, I m glad I did read it and you should, too.Florida revisits his thesis of 17 years ago regarding the creative class and alters his position somewhat after deeply, I mean deeply, researching the radical physic I want to be careful here this book is a classic, a necessary reference for this point in time, but it is also a slog, a college text type statistical brick and was...Although I ve read many of his articles on CityLab, this is the first full book I ve read by Richard Florida I was slightly surprised at how surface level this book felt The analysis and presentation of data was definitely useful in providing some concrete proof of certain economic and geographic trends, this book ultimately feltlike belated observation than anything else.I personally am not a fan of the fact the way Florida is very keen to come up with a catchy title for so many phenome Although I ve read many of his articles on CityLab, this is the first full book I ve read by Richard Florida I was slightly surprised at how surface level this book felt The analysis and presentation of data was definitely useful in providing some concrete proof of certain economic and geographic trends, this book ultimately feltlike belated observation than anything else.I personally am not a fan of the fact the way Florida is very...Florida explains what he means by an urban crisis, what fundamental forces are causing it, and how to solve it.The Crisis Leading cities NYC, LA, SF SJ, Chicago, Seattle, etc are consolidating all of the key growth sectors in a winner take all moment that is leaving the rest of the country behind These superstar cities are exploding housing prices and increasing segregation Every city is experiencing inequality, segregation, and sorting, and the middle class is disappearing from cities Florida explains what he means by an urban crisis, what fundamental forces are causing it, and how to solve it.The Crisis Leading cities NYC, LA, SF SJ, Chicago, Seattle, etc are consolidating all of the key growth sectors in a winner take all moment that is leaving the rest of the country behind These superstar cities are exploding housing prices and increasing segregation Every city is experiencing inequality, segregation, and sorting, and the middle class is disappearing from cities The suburbs have gotten much poorer In fact, there spoor people in suburbs 17 million than in cities 13.5 million The population of people living below the poverty line in the suburbs grew by 66% between 2000 and 2013 urban grew by 29% Much of this is people getting pushed out of cities that get too expensive The developing world has not seem the same growth from urbaniza...First, I am going to say Hey authors, readers are not stupid.I am always mad when I think I am going to be reading an information packed treatise on a subject that interests me, and then I find that it is really just another political propaganda piece masquerading as a neutral informed problem solving theoretical premise While the underlying support for the theory is reasonable and complex, including research though some of the information is direct from mainstream media rather than science First, I am going to say Hey authors, readers are not stupid.I am always mad when I think I am going to be reading an information packed tre...I found this book dry, dull and unengaging But balance my ambiguity with other commenters and reviewers A few observations that stuck with me A suburban crisis unfolds In half of the biggest urban centers, the area with three miles of a city s central business district added jobs at a faster rate than their suburbs These cities include Milwaukee, Austin, Indianapolis and New York Florida also found that jobs in urban centers paythan ones in the suburbs Florida, while writing thi I found this book dry, dull and unengaging But balance my ambiguity with other commenters and reviewers A few observations that stuck with me A suburban crisis unfolds In half of the biggest urban centers, the area with three miles of a city s central business district added jobs at a faster rate than their suburbs These cities include Milwaukee, Austin, Indianapolis and New York Florida also found that jobs in urban centers paythan ones in the suburbs Florida, while writing this book, thought that a Democratic administration along with big city mayors would undertake the investment that urbanism needs But with Republicans in charge, he doubts that will happen Mayors appeared on Democratic high profile tickets during last year s campaign Bernie Sanders served as mayor of Burlington, Vermont Tim Kaine, of Richmond, Virginia, joined Hillary s ticket Florida, nonetheless, complains that...From a recent article plugging ideas from EO Wilson s Half EarthCities are part of the system we ve invented to keep people alive on Earth People tend to like cities, and have been congregating in them ever since the invention of agriculture, 10,000 or so years ago That s why we call it civilisation This origin story underlines how agriculture made cities possible, by providing enough food to feed a settled crowd on a regular basis Cities can t work without farms, nor without watershed From a recent article plugging ideas from EO Wilson s Half EarthCities are part of the system we ve invented to keep people alive on Earth People tend to like cities, and have been congregating in them ever since the invention of agriculture, 10,000 or so years ago That s why we call it civilisation This origin story underlines how agriculture made cities possible, by providing enough food to feed a settled crowd on a regular basis Cities can t work without farms, nor without watersheds that provide their water So as central as cities are to modern civilisation, they are only one aspect of a system If Florid...As someone who has not extensively studied economics or urban planning, I was sometimes overwhelmed with the data and terms However, the story still resonates, and the data will be great reference.Prefacep.xvi My research found that the metros with the highest level of wage inequality were also those with the most dynamic and successful creative economies San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Seattle, Washington DC, and New York But even as I was documenting these new divides, I had no idea how fast they would metastasize, or how deeply polarized these cities would become In littlethan a decade, the revitalization of our cities and our urban areas that I had predicted was giving rise Prefacep.xvi My research found that the metros with the highest level of wage inequality were also those with the most dynamic and successful creative economies San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Seattle, Washington DC, and New York But even as I was documenting these new divides, I had no idea how fast they would metastasize, or how deeply polarized these cities would become In littlethan a decade, the revitalization of our cities and our urban areas that I had predicted was giving rise to rampant gentrification and unaffordability, driving deep wedges between affluent newcomers and struggling long time residents p.xvii What troubled me most of all was the decline of the great middle class neighb...

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15 January 2017

Richard Florida