دانلود کتاب Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs and exurbs. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity--evident in escalating real estate prices, expensive stores, and closely monitored urban streetscapes--has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens--and travels to both the city's first IKEA store and the World Trade Center site. She shows that for followers of Jane Jacobs, this transformation is a perversion of what was supposed to happen. Indeed, Naked City is a sobering update of Jacobs' legendary 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Like Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values and effectively force out the neighborhood "characters" that Jacobs so evocatively idealized. "This is scholarship with its boots on the ground, challenging us to look at the familiar in a new light." --The Boston Globe"A highly readable narrative...a revelation, no matter where you live." --The Austin Chronicle"Provocative." --San Francisco ChronicleTable of contents : Contents......Page 8Preface......Page 10Introduction: The City That Lost Its Soul......Page 20Uncommon Spaces......Page 521 How Brooklyn Became Cool......Page 542 Why Harlem Is Not a Ghetto......Page 823 Living Local in the East Village......Page 114Common Spaces......Page 1424 Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space......Page 1445 A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook......Page 1786 The Billboard and the Garden: A Struggle for Roots......Page 212Conclusion Destination Culture and the Crisis of Authenticity......Page 238Notes......Page 266A......Page 300B......Page 301C......Page 302E......Page 303G......Page 304H......Page 305L......Page 306N......Page 307P......Page 308R......Page 309S......Page 310U......Page 311W......Page 312Z......Page 313