The Challenges Of The Big City Boom

Richard Florida, senior editor at The Atlantic and University Professor and Director of Cities at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, joins us to discuss his book, The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It. Florida examines what it means when young and affluent residents move into neighborhoods that older generations had abandoned years before. He looks at how the same forces that are reviving cities are also creating issues like gentrification, unaffordability and segregation. 

This episode of "The Leonard Lopate Show" is guest hosted by WNYC's Ilya Marritz.