Urbanist Richard Florida posits a “new urban crisis.” He defines the new urban crisis as the “back-to-the-city movement of the affluent and the educated.”
The New Urban Crisis is a “fundamental feature of larger, denser, richer, more high-tech, more creative-class cities and metro areas.”
A central contradiction stands at the heart of today’s urbanized form of knowledge capitalism writ large. The very same clustering of talent, business, and economic capability in large, dense, knowledge-based places also carves deep divisions into our cities and society.
In next posts, we’ll work to de-code Professor Florida’s thinking, the term “urban crisis,” and the state and economies of our cities.
“Crisis” may point towards opportunity. Opportunity both on the individual level for reflection, growth, learning, and change and for collaborative work amongst individuals, companies, and institutions towards creative solutions.
See:
“Mapping the New Urban Crisis” | Richard Florida, CityLab, 13 April 2017
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