"He Got Almost Everything About Cities Wrong"

"His latest book, The New Urban Crisis, represents the culmination of this long mea culpa. Though he stops just short of saying it, he all but admits that he was wrong. He argues that the creative classes have grabbed hold of many of the world’s great cities and choked them to death. As a result, the fifty largest metropolitan areas house just 7 percent of the world's population but generate 40 percent of its growth. These 'superstar' cities are becoming gated communities, their vibrancy replaced with deracinated streets full of Airbnbs and empty summer homes."

Sam Wetherell at Jacobin writes that "Richard Florida Is Sorry."