Richard Florida: The new urban crisis: how our cities are increasing inequality, deepening segregation, and failing the middle class

《Richard Florida: The new urban crisis: how our cities are increasing inequality, deepening segregation, and failing the middle class—and what we can do about it》

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作者单位: Departamento de Economia,Universidad Catolica del Norte,Antofagasta,Chile,,,

摘要: Richard Florida earned reputation in urban planning thanks to two masterpieces: The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) and Cities and the Creative Class (2005). These works gave Florida sufficient influence to inspire urban policies in cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Iowa, Denver, Michigan and Austin. His contributions become a phenomenon labelled as the Floridization of cities related to fostering the installation of creative industries in urban centres to revitalise these areas. He elaborated methods for urban studies such as the coolness factor or the bohemia index which have been used throughout the globe. After 15years from presenting his seminal work, Richard Florida (2017) published The New Urban Crisis in which underlies an apology to those cities that implemented Florida’s creative class’ through urban policy triggering problems that, indeed, this book is addressing with new researches and different approaches to pressing urban questions.The aim of the book is...