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 […]
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For the past six months residents of Brooklyn Heights have expressed concern over the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) proposal to turn the community’s beloved Promenade into a six lane highway in an effort to repair the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. Members of the neighborhood have responded by banding together to protest […]
