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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, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs and exurbs.But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity--evident in escalating real estate prices, expensive stores, and closely monitored urban streetscapes--has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigran… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-984546-0
  • EAN: 9780199845460
  • Produktnummer: 13889455
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 312 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'639 KB
  • Abbildungen: 19 b/w photos

Über den Autor


Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is the author of Loft Living (the classic book on SoHo's gentrification), Landscapes of Power (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award), The Cultures of Cities, and Point of Purchase.

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