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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zukin, Sharon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
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.
City and town life
City planning > Social aspects
Community development, Urban
Urbanization
Steden.
Stadsplanning.
Authenticiteit.
New York (State) > New York
New York (stad)
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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