Книга: Sharon Zukin «The Cultures of Cities»
Производитель: "Blackwell Publishers" 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, shops, museums, and restaurants - which are the great public spaces of modernity. 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... ISBN:978-1-55786-437-6 Издательство: "Blackwell Publishers" (1995)
ISBN: 978-1-55786-437-6 |
Sharon Zukin
Sharon Zukin is a professor of
Selected works
*"Loft Living", New Brunswick (1982), ISBN 0813513898
*"Landscapes of Power : From Detroit to Disneyworld", Berkeley (1991), ISBN 00019935723
*"The Cultures of Cities", Oxford/UK (1995), ISBN 1557864373
*"Point of purchase : How shopping changed American culture", New York (2004), ISBN 0415945976
External links
* [http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/soc/faculty/zukin.htm Brooklyn College home page]
* [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/Faculty_Details5.jsp?faculty=420 Brooklyn College faculty profile]
Источник: Sharon Zukin
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