Naked City

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Naked City is written by Sharon Zukin and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199845468 (ISBN 10) and 9780199845460 (ISBN 13).

Sharon Zukin argues that the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity--and the consequent escalating real estate prices--has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens--and shows that for followers of Jane Jacobs, this transformation is a perversion of what was supposed to happen.