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# Richard FloridaNew Urban Crisis

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Important Study of Urban Inequality
  

*by R***7 on Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2021*

Some 80% of Americans live in cities, most of which are increasingly divided by class and ethnicity. Where I live, in Silicon Valley, corporate-government development projects are exacerbating century-long spatial inequities that have created a grown underclass. Florida maps the economic and political history of this crisis, from redlining in the 1920s, to deed covenants that excluded people of color through the 1960s, to gentrification from the 1980s onwards, providing extensive data to illustrate both the roots of crisis and its impacts. Among the most important and provocative findings in the book is the counterintuitive reality of more liberal cities, where affluent voters would *seem* to more inclined to support progressive urban growth policies that reduce poverty, housing costs, and homelessness, having greater inequity of income, education, environmental quality, etc. Importantly, the book concludes with recommendations for "urbanism for all" that should be starting points for conversation and action by citizens, community organizers, and government leaders. Because the book is highly readable, with fairly limited technical jargon, one would hope it increases awareness and action among ordinary urbanites beyond narrow circles of policy-makers.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Mostly OK but could profitably have been 50 pages shorter
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2017*

This book is a perfectly respectable magazine article stretched into an adequate but somewhat less brilliant book.  Many of his key points are (to me) common sense: housing prices in some metro areas are out of control, zoning is partially responsible, the problem isn't limited to suburbs, and there's a lot of segregation out there.What I liked the most: Florida complies lots of factual data, and here and there makes a point that is actually interesting.  For example:1.  he notes that housing prices have grown by 3.5 percent per year in San Francisco since 1950- more than twice the national average.2.  Florida discusses the toxic impact of land use regulation that limits the housing supply; for example, he cites one study suggesting  if everyone who wanted to live in cities like San Francisco and New York could afford to live there, the resulting wage increase would add 13.5 percent to America's GDP.3.  The conventional wisdom is that high housing costs make high-cost metros a bad deal.  Florida suggests that (especially for the upper and upper middle classes) the benefits of higher wages outweigh this cost.  After housing costs, the average worker has $42,120 left over in New York, and just over $26,000 left over in low-cost Las Vegas.  However, this impact varies by class: in the "creative class" (Florida's term for high-income workers) the New Yorker comes out $18,000 ahead, but for the low-wage "service class" the New Yorker only comes out $3,000 ahead.  For what's left of the industrial working class, New York only comes out $240 ahead (which I suspect is canceled out by New York's higher taxes).4.  Ch. 7 includes lots of charts and maps showing how metro areas vary. In high-cost, prosperous New York and San Francisco both cities and suburbs have rich areas and poor areas.  But in other regions, suburbia has the lion's share of regional wealth.  Despite all the public discussion of gentrification, there is no metro area where wealth is concentrated in cities.Like many liberals, Florida complains about inequality.  He writes that inequality "can be, and often is, a drag on economic growth."  But a page later he writes: "very few US cities or metro areas have been able to combine high levels of economic growth with low levels of inequality." I'm not sure how these positions fit together.The last two chapters are the weakest and probably should have been left for another book.  In his chapter on global urbanization, he writes that for much of the developing world, "urbanization has been a near total failure." But after showing that even third-world cities are more productive than their rural neighbors, he writes just five pages later: "urbanization, warts and all, is better than the alternative."  I am not sure how these statements fit together.His last chapter is a hodgepodge of tax-and-spend remedies.  Unlike extreme progressives, he does not favor huge increases in government regulation; for example, he is skeptical of rent control and favors new housing construction.  But unlike conservatives he favors a more generous welfare state and a higher minimum wage.  These issues are sufficiently complex that Florida probably should have left them for his next book rather than giving them cursory treatment in this one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
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*by N***S on Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2024*

I bought it for a collage class, but I really enjoyed reading it.

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