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Laddar... The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About Itav Richard Florida
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This book, which manages to be both readable and academic, looks closely at the problems of cities and inequality. I particularly appreciated the last few chapters, when the author proposes some solutions to the examined problems. I would have liked, however, a deeper analysis of the historical parallels to New Deal programs the author references as potential solutions. An interesting read, especially as the issues explored remain prominent. ( ) I first heard of Richard Florida when I was an undergraduate student in an urban planning class. I thought his perspective was interesting and I finally got around to reading his most recent book. There is a lot of research here. Unfortunately, the visual data was presented very poorly. The graphs and charts require color while these were printed in black and white only. They were pretty impossible to decipher, dulling the impact. That left me with relying only on the narrative description of the data. When I wasn’t sloughing through descriptions of charts and reading statistics, the gist of the book was interesting. The very reasons that make cities so successful are also making them fail in many other ways. The ideal would be for a city to provide a place to live and work for all segments of society. In many cities, this is becoming more and more difficult. As more people focused on technology and creative careers move back into cities, they are pushing others out, often long-time residents. The service class which these upper crust lean on are barely able to even commute to work as they live in more affordable areas, far from transit lines and city centers. What has been created are segregated cities, divided by race, class, education, and profession. He presents some ways to solve the problems of this ultimately unsustainable state of affairs. He describes seven pillars that puts cities at the center of the agenda: build smarter through regulation reform and land value taxes, improve transit, more affordable rental housing, improve wages of service jobs, combat poverty with a negative income tax, global efforts for more resilient cities, and allowing cities to make pragmatic decisions to create programs of intentional urban development. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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. In The New Urban Crisis, Richard Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power urban growth also generate cities' vexing challenges, such as gentrification, segregation, inequality, and unaffordable housing. Middle-class neighborhoods are disappearing as our cities and suburbs are carved into small areas of privilege surrounded by vast swaths of poverty and disadvantage. The rise of a winner-take all urbanism represents a profound crisis of today's urbanized knowledge economy that threatens our economic future. But if this crisis is urban, so is its solution. Cities remain the most powerful economic engines the world has ever seen. The only way forward is to devise a new model of urbanism-for-all that encourages innovation and wealth creation while generating good jobs, rising living standards, and a better way of life for everyone. We must rebuild cities and suburbs for the middle class by investing in infrastructure, reforming zoning and tax laws, building more affordable housing, and further empowering cities to address their own unique challenges. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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