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| #392844 in Books | imusti | 2011-05-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.10 x1.00 x9.10l,.93 | File Name: 0199794464 | 312 pages | Oxford University Press USA
||21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.| Naked City|By Henry De la Cruz|Sharon Zukin, it seems, spent quite a while walking around New York. So, as the first three or four chapters (which is about half the book) indicate, she seems to have figured out more or less the formula for gentrification in this city: First you have a working class neighborhood equipped with old, mixed-use buildings and typically having a pr|||"This is scholarship with its boots on the ground, challenging us to look at the familiar in a new light." --The Boston Globe | |||"A highly readable narrative...a revelation, no matter where you live." |--The Austin Chronicle |||"Provocati
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--e...
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