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Sharon Zukin Thinks Big
2/25/2010
Listen to Sharon Zukin, Professor of Sociology, speak about her new book, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (Oxford University Press, 2009) that explores the economic and social effect of gentrification in neighborhoods that have an "authentic" urban sense of place that, when emphasized as a tool drives up real estate values and effectively forces out the neighborhood’s distinctiveness.
