Sharon Zukin

Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

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As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as authentic urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, and funky ethnic restaurants. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the pervasive demand for authenticity has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Through a guided tour of six archetypal New York City neighborhoods, Zukin shows how the emphasis on distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values and force out the neighborhood characters that people often idealize. With a journalis… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-19-979446-1
EAN: 9780199794461
Produktnummer: 17626603
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 312 S.
Masse: H23.9 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.5 cm 422 g
Gewicht: 422

Über den Autor

Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Loft Living , Landscapes of Power (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award), The Cultures of Cities , and Point of Purchase.