The Cultures of Cities

by Sharon Zukin

Book Overview

How do cities use culture today? Building on the experience of New York as a "culture capital" Sharon Zukin shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - are reshaping urban places and conflicts over revitalization. She 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 streets, parks,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557864373
• ISBN13: 9781557864376
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Interesting study on the role of culture in modern cities

At first the book was hard to get through because of all the theory in the first chapter. After that the seperate chapters were very interesting to read.Some of the topics are North Adams and the museum, Bryant Park in New York, Disneyland (always fascinating for people interested in urban studies), Brooklyn.Her chapter on immigrants and restaurants is fascinating, she shows that many restaurants are run by people not from that culture (A Spaniard running a Brazilian restaurant) and that many people who aspire to be artists work in these restaurants.For people living in New York or Brooklyn this book is a must.