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"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

"The New Urban Crisis bracingly confronts [the] tension between big-city elites and the urban underclass."―Wall Street Journal

"[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

"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

"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

Chapter Page
Preface xi
1. The Urban Contradiction 1
2. Winner-Take-All Urbanism 13
3. City of Elites 35
4. Gentrification and Its Discontents 57
5. The Inequality of Cities 79
6. The Bigger Sort 97
7. Patchwork Metropolis 121
8. Suburban Crisis 151
9. The Crisis of Global Urbanization 167
10. Urbanism for All 185
Epilogue to the Paperback Edition 217
Appendix 235
Acknowledgments 259
Notes 263
Index 315

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 more 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 more inclusive cities capable of ensuring growth and prosperity for all.