Naked city : the death and life of authentic urban places / Sharon Zukin.
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- 9780199741892
- 0199741891
- City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York
- Urbanization -- New York (State) -- New York
- Community development, Urban -- New York (State) -- New York
- City planning -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
- Authenticity (Philosophy)
- Vie urbaine -- New York (État) -- New York
- Urbanisation -- New York (État) -- New York
- Développement communautaire urbain -- New York (État) -- New York
- Authenticité (Philosophie)
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development
- Authenticity (Philosophy)
- City and town life
- City planning -- Social aspects
- Community development, Urban
- Urbanization
- New York (State) -- New York
- Steden
- Stadsplanning
- Authenticiteit
- New York (stad)
- 307.1/4164097471 22
- HN80.N5 Z85 2010eb
- 71.14
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-280) and index.
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.
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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