Schindler, S. and Silver, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4870-2226 (2019) Florida in the Global South: How Eurocentrism obscures global urban challenges—and what we can do about it. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 43 (4). pp. 794-805. ISSN 0309-1317
Abstract
According to Richard Florida, the world is in the grip of a ‘New Urban Crisis’. In his most recent book Florida recounts a visit to Medellín that provoked an epiphany in which he realized that the New Urban Crisis is global in scope. Unfortunately, Florida's discovery of the global South is informed by a deeply Eurocentric understanding of urbanization. This leads him to conclude that Southern cities should ‘unleash’ creativity, and he proposes that the United States should develop a global urban policy that would export a version of American urbanism. In this essay we deconstruct Florida's notion of the New Urban Crisis and show that its Eurocentric assumptions obscure the very real environmental, economic and political challenges facing cities in the global South and their residents.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Urban Research Publications Limited. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2019 15:43 |
Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2021 13:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1468-2427.12747 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:142899 |