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As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as 'authentic' urban life, but as Sharon Zukin shows in 'Naked City', the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- contents -- prologue what shopping is -- 1. a brief history of shopping -- 2. julia learns to shop -- 3. from woolworth's to wal-mart -- 4. "the perfect pair of leather pants" -- 5. b. altman, ralph lauren, and the death of the leisure class -- 6. artemio goes to tiffany's -- 7. consumer guides and the invention of lifestyle -- 8. how brooks brothers came to look like banana republic -- 9. the zen of internet shopping -- 10. zagats "r" us -- epilogue what shopping should be -- notes -- acknowledgments -- index

In this study Dr Zukin combines the approaches of a political scientist and a sociologist to examine the distance between theory and practice in the lives of ordinary Yugoslavs living under socialist self-management. Going beyond previous work on socialist societies, she asks how Yugoslavs - as workers, as citizens and as a society - have benefited from the form of socialism that they have pioneered. She also considers the relevance of the official ideology of self-management, institutions like workers' councils and communes, and political and economic controls to post-industrial as well as industrializing societies. The book includes long passages from intensive, in-depth interviews with members of ten Belgrade families. The families, which are described in terms of their place in the Yugoslav social structure, indicate their political and socialist ideology through telling their life stories, interpreting their own place in social changes, and reacting to these changes and pressures. Participant-observation of local voters meetings provides an examination of give-and-take in Yugoslav grass-roots politics

Pendant de nombreuses années, la prédominance de restaurants bon marché et de restaurants servant les plats traditionnels du Sud rural, dont beaucoup des migrants afro‑américains étaient originaires, incarnait l'icône du ghetto américain. Les restaurants proposant de la Soul Food offraient un espace social où se pouvait se développer et se mettre en scène une identité « noire », et où, bien qu'ils ne soient propriétaires ni des bâtiments ni des magasins, ceux‑ci pouvaient y jouir d'un sentiment de « propriété morale ». Toutefois, depuis quelques années, un mouvement de migration transnationale et de gentrification à Bedford‑ Stuyvesant, un quartier noir à Brooklyn, contribue à la diversification locale des restaurants, ce qui pose un défi à l'identité afro‑ américaine.