Naked city : the death and life of authentic urban places /
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 a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.