Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places by Sharon Zukin

By Sharon Zukin

As towns have gentrified, knowledgeable urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" city lifestyles: getting older structures, artwork galleries, small boutiques, upscale nutrients markets, local old-timers, funky ethnic eating places, and previous, family-owned outlets. those symbolize a place's authenticity, not like the tasteless standardization of the suburbs and exurbs.

But as Sharon Zukin exhibits in Naked City, the fast and pervasive call for for authenticity--evident in escalating genuine property costs, pricey shops, and heavily monitored city streetscapes--has helped force out the very those who first lent a local its real air of mystery: immigrants, the operating type, and artists. Zukin lines this fiscal and social evolution in six archetypal long island areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union sq., pink Hook, and the city's neighborhood gardens--and travels to either the city's first IKEA shop and the area alternate middle web site. She indicates that for fans of Jane Jacobs, this variation is a perversion of what was once speculated to ensue. certainly, Naked City is a sobering replace of Jacobs' mythical 1961 e-book, The dying and lifetime of nice American Cities. Like Jacobs, Zukin seems at what provides neighborhoods a feeling of position, yet argues that over the years, the emphasis on local area of expertise has develop into a device of financial elites to force up actual property values and successfully strength out the local "characters" that Jacobs so evocatively idealized.

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