Revisiting the New Urban Crisis [citylab.com]
Editor’s note: This is an adapted version of the epilogue to the newly released paperback edition of The New Urban Crisis . A colleague who heard me speak shortly after The New Urban Crisis was published in hardcover approached me at a follow-up event a few months later: “You seem a lot more optimistic than you did the last time I saw you,” he remarked. “What happened?” His question took me aback, and I hesitated for a moment before venturing an answer. Then all at once it struck me. “You’re...