Sharon Zukin is Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

• Preface ; 1. Origins and New Beginnings ; UNCOMMON SPACES ; 2. How Brooklyn Became Cool ; 3. Living Local in the East Village ; 4. Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto ; COMMON SPACES ; 5. Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space ; 6. A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook ; 7. The Billboard and the Garden: A Struggle for Roots ; 8. Destination Culture and the Crisis of Authenticity

The strengths of Naked City lie in Zukin's acute eye, her attentive ear for shifts in the way we talk about cities, and her evocative sympathy for the longtime residents of neighborhoods such as Williamsburg, Harlem, Red Hook, and her own East Village, trying to hold onto their leases and their lives as a rising tide of cultural and finance capital raises everyones rent... Zukin offers a compelling account of how a certain kind of success spoils cities and some eminently sensible, if politically radical, ideas about how to preserve people along with buildings.

Sharon Zukin is Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

• Preface ; 1. Origins and New Beginnings ; UNCOMMON SPACES ; 2. How Brooklyn Became Cool ; 3. Living Local in the East Village ; 4. Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto ; COMMON SPACES ; 5. Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space ; 6. A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook ; 7. The Billboard and the Garden: A Struggle for Roots ; 8. Destination Culture and the Crisis of Authenticity

The strengths of Naked City lie in Zukin's acute eye, her attentive ear for shifts in the way we talk about cities, and her evocative sympathy for the longtime residents of neighborhoods such as Williamsburg, Harlem, Red Hook, and her own East Village, trying to hold onto their leases and their lives as a rising tide of cultural and finance capital raises everyones rent... Zukin offers a compelling account of how a certain kind of success spoils cities and some eminently sensible, if politically radical, ideas about how to preserve people along with buildings.

Sharon Zukin is Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

• Preface ; 1. Origins and New Beginnings ; UNCOMMON SPACES ; 2. How Brooklyn Became Cool ; 3. Living Local in the East Village ; 4. Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto ; COMMON SPACES ; 5. Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space ; 6. A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook ; 7. The Billboard and the Garden: A Struggle for Roots ; 8. Destination Culture and the Crisis of Authenticity

The strengths of Naked City lie in Zukin's acute eye, her attentive ear for shifts in the way we talk about cities, and her evocative sympathy for the longtime residents of neighborhoods such as Williamsburg, Harlem, Red Hook, and her own East Village, trying to hold onto their leases and their lives as a rising tide of cultural and finance capital raises everyones rent... Zukin offers a compelling account of how a certain kind of success spoils cities and some eminently sensible, if politically radical, ideas about how to preserve people along with buildings.