The Cultures of Cities
By Sharon Zukin.
Description
How do cities use culture today? Building on the experience of NewYork as a "culture capital" Sharon Zukin shows how three notions ofculture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - arereshaping urban places and conflicts over revitalization. Sherejects the idea that cities have either a singular urban cultureor many different subcultures to argue that cultures are constantlynegotiated in the city's central spaces - the streets, parks,shops, museums, and restaurants - which are the great public spacesof modernity.While cultural gentrification may contribute to making o...
ISBN(s)
1557864373, 9781557864376
