理查德·佛羅裏達 美國著名學者，創意階層集團創始人、世界著名創意經濟學傢。現任多倫多大學羅特曼管理學院商業與創意力教授、多倫多大學馬丁繁榮研究所所長。曾是喬治梅森大學公共政策教授、蓋洛普公司資深科學傢，並擔任麻省理工學院和哈佛大學客座教授。

入選全球城市規劃**網站Planetizen評齣的“全世界*具影響力的100位城市思想傢”，也是麻省理工學院《技術評論》雜誌評選的“世界上*具影響力的思想領袖”。

著有《創意階層的崛起》等多部暢銷書。《創意階層的崛起》榮獲《華盛頓月刊》授予的政治圖書奬，並被《哈佛商業評論》評為“*具突破性的思維方式”。

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 vexing challenges: gentrification, unaffordability, segregation, and inequality. Meanwhile, many more cities still stagnate, and middle-class neighborhoods everywhere are disappearing. Our winner-take-all cities are just one manifestation of a profound crisis in today's urbanized knowledge economy.

A bracingly original work of research and analysis, The New Urban Crisis offers a compelling diagnosis of our economic ills and a bold prescription for more inclusive cities capable of ensuring growth and prosperity for all.