Zukin S. The Cultures of Cities

Wiley-Blackwell, 1996. — 338 p. — ISBN10: 1557864373; ISBN13: 9781557864376.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.Whose Culture? Whose City?
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High Culture And Wild Commerce In New York City
Artists And Immigrants In New York City
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