Naked city : the death and life of authentic urban places
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Naked city : the death and life of authentic urban places
Oxford University Press, 2011, c2010
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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 journalist's eye and the understanding of a longtime observer, Zukin's panoramic survey of the city explains how our desire
to consume authentic experience has become a central force in making cities more exclusive.
Table of Contents
- 1 Origins and New Beginnings
- Uncommon Spaces
- 2 How Brooklyn Became Cool
- 3 Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto
- 4 Living Local in the East Village
- Common Spaces
- 5 Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space
- 6 A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook
- 7 The Billboard and the Garden: A Struggle for Roots
- 8 Destination Culture and the Crisis of Authenticity
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