"Jacobs preferred "gradual" to "cataclysmic" money, believing that small amounts of residents' savings invested in individual houses will save a neighborhood from decline... She didn't realize then, or acknowledge later, that gradual investments by highly educated, higher income people like herself m"
"officials walk a fine line between promising support for affordable housing that will help to preserve communities and redevelopment projects that will change them. p228 the media help that image to recede into social obsolescence while recycling it into the aesthetic code of a new urban lifestyle.."
"The Gates, the Guggenheim, and the Cow Parade, as Jean Baudrillard once wrote about the "Beaubourg effect," are a part of the "hypermarket of culture" that keeps people enthralled, "in a state of integrated mass." p234"
"Though the city government's historic preservation laws prevented developers from destroying the physical fabric of the old cast-iron loft buildings, the local character that New Yorkers took to be "authentic"-- the distinctive cultural meaning the neighborhood derived from use of the space for eith"
"To claim that a neighborhood is authentic suggests that the group that makes the claim knows what to do with, how best to represent, its "authentic" character. Whether members of this group are rappers or gentrifiers, their ability to represent the streets gives them a right to claim power over them"
作者简介
莎伦•佐金(Sharon Zukin),美国纽约市立大学布鲁克林学院与研究生中心社会学教授,著有《阁楼生活》(Loft Living,1982、1989)、《权力景观》(Landscapes of Power,1991,获得C•赖特•米尔斯奖)、《城市文化》(The Cultures of Cities,1995)、《购买点》(Point of Purchase,2004)和《裸城》(Naked City,2010)。