‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

The Production of Space

This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.

The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo

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Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’

By Pierre Bourdieu (London: Routledge, 2010), xxx + 607 pp. £15.99 paper. A combination of social theory, statistical data, illustrations, and interviews, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judg...

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

The Rise of the Creative Class

Preface. 1. Whose Culture? Whose City? 2. Learning From Disney World. 3. A Museum In The Bershires.with Philip Kasinitz. 4. High Culture and Wild Commerce in New York City. 5. Artists And Immigrants In New York City Restaurants with 6. While The City Shops. 7. The Mystique Of Public Culture. References. Index.

The Cultures of Cities

Since its initial publication, Loft Living has become the classic analysis of the emergence of artists as a force of gentrification and the related rise of ""creative city"" policies around the world. This 25th anniversary edition, with a new introduction, illustrates how loft living has spread around the world and that artists' districts - trailing the success of SoHo in New York - have become a global tourist attraction. Sharon Zukin reveals the economic shifts and cultural transformations that brought widespread attention to artists as lifestyle models and agents of urban change, and explains their role in attracting investors and developers to the derelict loft districts where they made their home. Prescient and dramatic, Loft Living shows how a declining downtown Manhattan became a popular ""scene"", how loft apartments became hot commodities for the middle class, and how investors, corporations, and rich elites profited from deindustrializing the city's factory districts and turning them into trendy venues for art galleries, artisanal restaurants, and bars. However, this edition points out that the artists who led the trend are now priced out of the loft market. Even in New York, where the loft living market was born, artists have no legal claim on loft districts, nor do they get any preferential treatment in the harsh real estate market. From the story of SoHo in Lower Manhattan to SoWa in Boston and SoMa in San Francisco, Zukin explains how once-edgy districts are transformed into high-price neighborhoods, and how no city can restrain the juggernaut of rising property values.

Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change

The momentous changes which are transforming American life call for a new exploration of the economic and cultural landscape. In this book Sharon Zukin links our ever-expanding need to consume with two fundamental shifts: places of production have given way to spaces for services and paperwork, and the competitive edge has moved from industrial to cultural capital. From the steel mills of the Rust Belt, to the sterile malls of suburbia, to the gentrified urban centers of our largest cities, the "creative destruction" of our economy - a process by which a way of life is both lost and gained - results in a dramatically different landscape of economic power. Sharon Zukin probes the depth and diversity of this restructuring in a series of portraits of changed or changing American places. Beginning at River Rouge, Henry Ford's industrial complex in Dearborn, Michigan, and ending at Disney World, Zukin demonstrates how powerful interests shape the spaces we inhabit. Among the landscapes she examines are steel towns in West Virginia and Michigan, affluent corporate suburbs in Westchester County, gentrified areas of lower Manhattan, and theme parks in Florida and California. In each of these case studies, new strategies of investment and employment are filtered through existing institutions, experience in both production and consumption, and represented in material products, aesthetic forms, and new perceptions of space and time. The current transformation differs from those of the past in that individuals and institutions now have far greater power to alter the course of change, making the creative destruction of landscape the most important cultural product of our time. Zukin's eclectic inquiry into the parameters of social action and the emergence of new cultural forms defines the interdisciplinary frontier where sociology, geography, economics, and urban and cultural studies meet.

Landscapes of power : from Detroit to Disney World

Preface 1. Origins and New Beginnings UNCOMMON SPACES 2. How Brooklyn Became Cool 3. Living Local in the East Village 4. Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto COMMON SPACES 5. Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space 6. A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook 7. The Billboard and the Garden: A Struggle for Roots 8. Destination Culture and the Crisis of Authenticity

Naked City. The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (excerpts)

1 Origins and New Beginnings Uncommon Spaces 2 How Brooklyn Became Cool 3 Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto 4 Living Local in the East Village Common Spaces 5 Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space 6 A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook 7 The Billboard and the Garden: A Struggle for Roots 8 Destination Culture and the Crisis of Authenticity

Sharon Zukin

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The Cultures of Cities

Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change

Landscapes of power : from Detroit to Disney World

Naked City. The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (excerpts)

Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places