The New Urban Crisis
Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality, and What We Can Do About It
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?
HUH?
The answer to that question - and resolving the inherent conflicts in the binary choices posed by the publisher and author Richard Florida are manifold > it's all about networks and distributed networks . . .
More about that later in another post ...
The answer to that question - and resolving the inherent conflicts in the binary choices posed by the publisher and author Richard Florida are manifold > it's all about networks and distributed networks . . .
More about that later in another post ...
THE BOOK [accompanied with link to buy it]
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.>broader strategy for clustered, urbanised growth,
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.>broader strategy for clustered, urbanised growth,
HUH? it is clear, says Florida, that mayors and community leaders in cities around the world need to press for powers that will enable them ??????????? to guide and govern their communities and to address their own problems as they arise
WHAT ABOUT US??????
"""The very same clustering force that generates economic and social progress also increasingly divides us demographically, culturally and politically. . . national leaders are not really grappling with the problem.Especially since all countries rely on cities for the innovation and creativity that spur economic growth.economic anxiety ?????remains a real feature of many people's lives and indeed continues to rise.
"The fact that is now the suburbs rather than inner cities where poverty is most prevalent only underlines the extent to which middle-class dreams of a better life have been dashed in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere. Florida suggests that the urban crisis is "a big part of the reason why the economies of the advanced nations have been unable to recover fully from the economic crisis and remain mired in what some call 'secular stagnation'."
a strategy for "a more productive urbanism" built around seven pillars
SEVEN PILLARS????
• Make clustering work for us and not against us
• Invest in the infrastructure for density and growth
• Build more affordable rental housing
• Turn low-wage service jobs into middle-class work
• Tackle poverty by investing in people and places
• Lead a global effort to build prosperous cities
• Empower cities and communities
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogertrapp/2017/10/31/invest-in-cities-to-narrow-the-inequality-gap/#39257cb737ab
