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The Cultures of Cities Paperback - 1996 - 1st Edition
by Sharon Zukin; Zukin
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While cultural gentrification may contribute to making our cities both safer and more civilised places to live, it has its darker side. Beneath the perceptions of "civility" and "security" nurtured by cultural strategies, Zukin shows an aggressive private-sector bid for control of public space, a relentless drive for expansion by art museums and other non-profit cultural institutions, and an increasing redesign of the built environment for the purposes of social control.
Tying these developments to a new "symbolic economy" based on tourism, media and entertainment, Zukin traces the connections between real estate development and popular expression, and between elite visions of the arts and more democratic representations. Going beyond the immigrants, artists, street peddlers, and security guards who are the key figures in the symbolic economy, Zukin asks: Who really occupies the central spaces of cities? And whose culture is imposed as public culture?
Combining cultural critique, interviews, autobiography and ethnography, The Culture of Cities is a compelling account of the public spaces of modernity as they are transformed into new, more troubling landscapes.
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- Title The Cultures of Cities
- Author Sharon Zukin; Zukin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Malden, MA
- Date 1996-01-23
- ISBN 9781557864376 / 1557864373
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.04 x 0.6 in (22.76 x 15.34 x 1.52 cm)
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- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Library of Congress subjects City and town life, Cities and towns
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95007534
- Dewey Decimal Code 307.76
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- Choice, 06/01/2005, Page 1755
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