Sharon Zukin: The Cultures of Cities (1995.
Whose culture?, whose city?; learning from Disney World; a museum of modern art in the Berkshires; high culture and wild commerce in New York City; artists and immigrants in New York City restaurants; shopping malls, office lobbies and ghetto shopping centres; the mystique of visual culture. Responsibility: Sharon Zukin. More information.
Theorist and urban historian Sharon Zukin speaks about this subject in her book The Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places. She discusseshow urban communities can lose their authenticity due to the continuance of redevelopment and renewal for an end result of a profitable gain.
Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Graduate School, City University of New York. She is the author of Loft Living and, most recently, the award-winning Landscapes of Power.
Big Think Interview With Sharon Zukin Sharon Zukin She is the author of Loft Living, Landscapes of Power (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award), The Cultures of Cities, and Point of Purchase.
Those that come to power have the upper hand on who controls the resources in an area. In Sharon Zukin’s reading Whose Culture? Whose city?, we learned that those with the most economic and political power control of public space. But with the city takeover in place in Atlantic City the civil right issues become trampled on.
Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College. She is the author of The Cultures of Cities (1995), Landscapes of Power (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, 1991), Structures of Capital (co-edited with Paul DiMaggio, 1990), and Loft Living (1982).
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