Sharon Zukin: "Pacification by cappuccino"

Sharon Zukin 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.

Teaching at the New School, New York
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BOOKS:

Loft Living (1982)
The Cultures of Cities (1995) 
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (Oxford University Press, 2010) is an update to Jane Jacobs'  The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991)
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