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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In New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, Agnotti discusses how the finance, insurance, and real estate industries greatly contributed to the landscape of New York City we see today and how FIRE affected community planning. Agnotti mentions how big FIRE players contributed to the dislocation of […]
There will be an upcoming special election for the citywide election position of Public Advocate on February 26, 2019. As a result, anyone who isn’t currently registered or wants to change their voter registration by mail needs to do so by Friday, February 1, 2019 and postmarked by February 6, 2019. If you […]
