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

"Updated with a new epilogue"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In recent years, the young, educated, and afluent 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, demonstrates how the forces that drive urban growth also generate cities' vexing challenges, such as gentrification, segregation, and inequality. Meanwhile, many more cities still stagnate, and middle-class neighborhoods everywhere are disappearing. We must rebuild cities and suburbs by empowering them to address their challenges."--Back cover.

The urban contradiction -- Winner-take-all urbanism -- City of elites -- Gentrification and its discontents -- The inequality of cities -- The bigger sort -- Patchwork metropolis -- Suburban crisis -- The crisis of global urbanization -- Urbanism for all -- Epilogue to the paperback edition.