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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: i… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-538285-3
  • EAN: 9780195382853
  • Produktnummer: 22676889
  • Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 294 S.
  • Masse: H24.5 cm x B16.4 cm x D2.9 cm 566 g
  • Gewicht: 566

Über den Autor


Sharon Zukin is Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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