Sharon Zukin describes in Chapter 1 of her book Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places the rise and fall of authenticity in Brooklyn, and occasionally mentions a similar occurrence in SoHo. I would like to take my turn and describe the […]
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What quantifies a city? The people, the amenities, the culture? What if such factors take a drastic change, is the city still the same? Such are the points which garner the platform of Sharon Zukin’s piece, Naked City, Zukin claims that cities have lost its “edge” and its “difference.” Chronic […]
The children’s cartoon show Arthur teaches various lessons about life, family, and education through the experiences of various characters. In an episode of the series, the character Brain has various dreams about the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and replicates what […]
Over three decades ago, a band from New York City released a song that I think symbolizes what Sharon Zukin talks about in the chapter “How Brooklyn Became Cool.” In 1986, the Beastie Boys released the song No Sleep Till Brooklyn. Most people know that the song name is actually […]
In her book Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, Zukin opens the chapter “Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto” by describing the atmosphere of Settepani, a restaurant in Harlem that has attracted tourists, new residents, and gentrifiers. Zukin associates Settepani and other well-known Harlem restaurants with […]
As I read through Sharon Zukin’s work, on the corporatization of Union Square, I could hardly keep myself from relating it back to an article I had read over the weekend. Just as the citizens of New York lost control over Union Square to corporate interests, the citizens of Brooklyn […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
