Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change

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Rutgers University Press, 1989 - Buildings - 232 pages
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The pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women's lives have changed-or not-since the book was first published.

Contributors are Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Julie Carter, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willie M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita Weems.

 

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If I were pressed to name my five favorite authors, Sharon Zukin would be on that list. (Others might be John McPhee, Juhani Pallasmaa, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and Michael Sorkin.) Her writings on cities ... Read full review

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An astonishingly insightful book. however, your book blurb applies to a different book entirely, Home Girls, I believe.

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Contents

Living Lofts as Terrain and Market
1
Investment and Politics
23
The Creation of a Loft Lifestyle
58
Art in the Arms of Power
82
From Arts Production to Housing Market
111
Demand and Development in the Loft Market
126
Speculation and the State
149
Capital Shifts and the Cultural AvantGarde
173
More Market Forces
193
Notes
211
Index
227
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TitleLoft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change
AuthorSharon Zukin
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherRutgers University Press, 1989
ISBN0813513898, 9780813513898
Length232 pages
  
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