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Chairman’s Book Club: “The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation and Failing the Middle Class – And What We Can Do About It” Timelines: 1b: Past Events (Unseen Archive)

Where:
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
1 Lafayette Square
Buffalo, NY 14203
Date: October 27, 2017
Time: 12:00–1:00 p.m.

Moderator Frank Housh, Library Board Chairman
Panelists: Robert Silverman, UB School of Architecture & Planning
Aaron Bartley, PUSH Buffalo
Additional panelist to be announced

Panel discussion on urbanist Richard Florida’s new 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.”

From Amazon.com:
“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…. 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.”

Free and open to the public. Copies of the book are available through the Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries.