In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth of the world's superstar cities also generate their...

An eye-opening account of the transformation of cities and an urgent call to action to prevent another crime wave. --Publisher

"Probes trends in migration, income and poverty, and housing in the nation's largest cities and metropolitan areas, using data from the long form of the 2000 census"--Provided by publisher.