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Loft Living
Culture and Capital in Urban Change
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2014
Über dieses Buch
Since its initial publication, Loft Living has become the classic analysis of the emergence of artists as a force of gentrification and the related rise of “creative city” policies around the world. This 25th anniversary edition, with a new introduction, illustrates how loft living has spread around the world and that artists’ districts—trailing the success of SoHo in New York—have become a global tourist attraction. Sharon Zukin reveals the economic shifts and cultural transformations that brought widespread attention to artists as lifestyle models and agents of urban change, and explains their role in attracting investors and developers to the derelict loft districts where they made their home.
Prescient and dramatic, Loft Living shows how a declining downtown Manhattan became a popular “scene,” how loft apartments became hot commodities for the middle class, and how investors, corporations, and rich elites profited from deindustrializing the city’s factory districts and turning them into trendy venues for art galleries, artisanal restaurants, and bars. However, this edition points out that the artists who led the trend are now priced out of the loft market. Even in New York, where the loft living market was born, artists have no legal claim on loft districts, nor do they get any preferential treatment in the harsh real estate market.
From the story of SoHo in Lower Manhattan to SoWa in Boston and SoMa in San Francisco, Zukin explains how once-edgy districts are transformed into high-price neighborhoods, and how no city can restrain the juggernaut of rising property values.
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SHARON ZUKIN is professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Rezensionen
"Zukin outlines the economic and political changes that influenced the abandonment of manufacturing in Manhattan and impacted the culture surrounding residential loft conversion."
— Soho Broadway"An important, substantive study in urban sociology and political economy...readable...style, free of academic cant."
— Choice"An outstanding example of the new interdisciplinary direction in the study of urban communities, combining political economy, sociology, and history. Loft Living is literate, evocative, [and] ambitious."
— Contemporary Sociology
1. "An impressive book. Zukin entered the tangled world of zoning law, development politics, and real estate markets, analyzed documents and conducted interviews until she understood that world and was able to make us understand it, and emerged with a persuasive analysis of what may be the fundamental model for urban change."
"One of the most insightful analyses yet to be published on the recent processes of transformation of American cities...a most interesting exploration of the social roots of urban vitality as well as the new forms of spatial inequality."
— Manuel Castells, author of The City and the Grassroots"An engrossing, enlightening, and elegantly written book."
— Theory and Society"A formidable book."
— New StatesmanFachgebiete
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eBook ISBN:
9780813570983
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Inhalt:
260
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9780813570983
Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
culture; capital; urban; urbanization; artist; gentrification; gentrify; creative city; creativity; SoHo; tourist; attraction; economic shifts; cultural; transformation; attention; lifestyle model; agent; urban change; investor; developer; Manhattan; popular; apartment; commodity; middle class; corporation; rich; wealth; elite; industrialize; factory; city; trendy; art gallery; restaurant; bars; loft market; New York; NY; loft district; real estate; district; neighborhood; property value
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Professional and scholarly;
