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Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
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(Buch) |
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| Lieferstatus: |
 i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig |
| Veröffentlichung: |
Mai 2011
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| Genre: |
Soziologie |
| ISBN: |
9780199794461 |
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EAN-Code:
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9780199794461 |
| Verlag: |
Oxford University Press |
| Einband: |
Kartoniert |
| Sprache: |
English
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| Dimensionen: |
H 234 mm / B 156 mm / D 19 mm |
| Gewicht: |
537 gr |
| Seiten: |
314 |
| Zus. Info: |
Paperback |
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| Inhalt: |
| 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 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Like Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values and effectively force out the neighborhood "characters" that Jacobs so evocatively idealized. |
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