Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change (Johns Hopkins Studies in Urban Affairs)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (794 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801826942 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Graduate School, City University of New York. She is the author of "Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change" and co-editor of "Structures and Capital".David Harvey is Professor of Geography at the Johns Hopkins University. . From 1987 to 1993 he held the Halford Mackinder Chair of Geography at Oxford University. His previous bo
. From the Back Cover This book exposes the meeting of art and real estate markets, the happy meeting between artists' demand for housing and city officials and homeowners who wanted to 'upgrade' their neighborhoods by private market means--and how those artists were used and abandoned by real estate developers and investors who were banking on rising property values
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"Author's comments: what LOFT LIVING tells us about cities" according to A Customer. When I wrote this book about the transformation of lower Manhattan a number of years ago, SoHo was already recognized as an artists' and a landmark loft district. Because of the many modern art galleries and the neighborhood's general ambiance of being "discovered," it also became a tourist destination. I wanted to explain the process of discovery--how derelict loft spaces attracted artists in the 1960s and 1970s, and through them, provided a cultural core for the commercial redevelopment of the central city. Did I . A Necessary Book I thought it was going to be more about the adventures in loft living (or something like that), but it was about economics, politics, and class/race. At times, it was dry. However, I know it's a fairly classic text and an important read.