Publicación de la semana: “Naked City”

Autor: Sharon Zukin
Editorial: Oxford University Press
Año de publicacuón: 2010
Idioma: Inglés
ISBN: 978-0-19-538285-3
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En este libro Zukin destaca qué es lo que hace que los vecinos se empoderen realmente en sus ciudades. Pero el ojo crítico no deja de estar ausente, ya que la autora concluye que la ciudad se termina definiendo por manejos económicos que terminan por sacarle identidad. El análisis es de Nueva York, y sigue la corriente de la pensadora urbana Jane Jacobs y su clásico The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Contenidos

1. Origins and New Beginnings

Uncommon Spaces

2. How Brooklyn Became Cool

3. Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto

4. Living Local in the East Village

Common Spaces

5. Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space

6. A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook

7. The Billboard and the Garden: A Struggle for Roots

Preface (extracto)

“This is a good moment to take stock of recent changes in cities that we think we know well, changes that both surprise us in the daily routine of walking through our neighborhoods and contradict the images in television replays and earlier films noirs that we see in popular culture. Naked City is one of those films noirs that we see in popular culture. Naked City is one of those films noirs, a black and white police thriller made in 1948 on the streets of New York, a film that tracks a murder suspect from Park Avenue to the Lower East Side and finally to an end with no escape in sight.”