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Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

Door Sharon Zukin

Categorie	Algemeen Architectuur & Bouwkunde
Boeknummer	#384385-UE12
Titel	Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
Auteur	Zukin, Sharon
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	0195382854
ISBN13	9780195382853
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, dust jacket, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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, Harl... (Lees verder)em, 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. Minder lezen
Pagina's	294
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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