The Cultures of Cities by Sharon Zukin

The Cultures of Cities by Sharon Zukin

Shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - reshape urban places and conflicts over revitalization. This book rejects the idea that cities have either a singular urban culture or many different subcultures to argue that cultures are constantly negotiated in the city's central spaces.

"The Culture of Cities gives a tremendous boost to urban cultural analysisFull of fresh details and original thought, it should significantly influence the whole discourse on cities and culture." Harvey Molotch, co-author of Urban Fortunes

"Sharon Zukin has written a penetrating and nuanced portrait of the displacement of planning by marketing in our cities, of the ways in which they extend and increasingly depend on the spurious automations of culture that have become America's most important product. What makes her book especially rare, though, are her recordings of the ways these cultural superposition's reverberate in the life of the street, the negotiations and compromises forced on the real lives of people harried by this symbolic economy and its seemingly inexorable co-optation of the spaces of public life." Michael Sorkin

"Urban culture is the new combat zone and Sharon Zukin is our most brilliant war correspondent, whose despatches include a bizarre visit to Disney University, a behind-the-scenes exposé of chic restaurants, and the ultimate New York shopping trip." Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz

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.

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ISBN 13	9781557864376
ISBN 10	1557864373
Title	The Cultures of Cities
Author	Sharon Zukin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	1995-12-18
Number of pages	336
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