Naked city : the death and life of authentic urban places / Sharon Zukin.
2010
HN80.N5 Z85 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Naked city : the death and life of authentic urban places / Sharon Zukin.
Author
Zukin, Sharon.
ISBN
9780195382853 (alk. paper)
0195382854 (alk. paper)
0195382854 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xv, 294 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HN80.N5 Z85 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.1/4164097471
Summary
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: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens--and travels to both the city's first IKEA store and the World Trade Center site. She shows that for followers of Jane Jacobs, this transformation is a perversion of what was supposed to happen. Indeed, Naked City is a sobering update of Jacobs' legendary 1962 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Origins and new beginnings
How Brooklyn became cool
Why Harlem is not a ghetto
Living local in the East Village
Union square and the paradox of public space
A tale of two globals: pupusas and Ikea in Red Hook
The billboard and the garden: a struggle for roots
Destination culture and the crisis of authenticity.
How Brooklyn became cool
Why Harlem is not a ghetto
Living local in the East Village
Union square and the paradox of public space
A tale of two globals: pupusas and Ikea in Red Hook
The billboard and the garden: a struggle for roots
Destination culture and the crisis of authenticity.