The Patchwork Ecosystem of Local Shopping Streets: Globalization and Gentrification from New York to Shanghai.
The Program on Urban Studies presents:
Sharon Zukin.
Sharon is professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and at the CUNY Graduate Center. Zukin is the author of books on cities, culture and consumer culture, and a researcher on urban, cultural and economic change. She was Broeklundian Professor from 1996 to 2008. She received the Lynd Award for Career Achievement in urban sociology, from the American Sociological Association, and the C. Wright Mills Book Award for Landscapes of Power. She was visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, 2010-11, and is a distinguished fellow in the Advanced Research Collaborative at the CUNY Graduate Center in fall 2014.
"From New York to Shanghai, the everyday spaces of local shopping streets are undergoing dramatic transformations. Globalization brings new products and people, while different types of gentrification reshape the street's aesthetics and atmosphere. How do we "read" these changes? How are they translated into local idioms and through local institutions? Most important, do they destroy the sense of the "local" to make every street, in every city, more alike?"