In this weeks reading, “Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space,” Sharon Zukin writes quite a bit on the different groups that control public spaces like Union Square and similarly the WTC. She mentions that after 9/11, there was a dissonance in the steps that were to be taken […]
Daily Archives: March 18, 2019
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Sharon Zukin unlike other urban sociologists doesn’t focus on ethnographically analyzing communities, immigrants and settlement patterns, moreover she is concerned with the role of the state and targeting how urban space is produced deliberately from capital necessity. Similarly, to Richard Florida and the “Creative Class”, Zukin coined the term and concept […]
Max Rivlin-Nadler, an investigative journalist, writes an article discussing the effects Business Improvement Directs have on a community specifically the social groups they exclude and the small business they hurt. He explains the devastating loss the government took on the bases of not being able to meet public expectations in […]
Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City, was interviewed about her book (http://www.citsee.eu/interview/naked-city-authenticity-and-urban-citizenship-interview-sharon-zukin). In the interview she was asked about the term authenticity, specifically “What do you mean by ‘authenticity’ in this urban context?” She responds “I chose very deliberately to use the word ‘authenticity’ to talk about changes in New […]
I fear the day that parks, which are the epitome of public space, come to mean “safe” in the way that suburban shopping malls are viewed as safe – because of their sterility and exclusion of certain social classes. […]
