Can I read The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980 (Historical Studies of Urban America) on EtoBox?

The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980 (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Aaron "Shkuda is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980 (Historical Studies of Urban America) about?

American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. Thus, SoHo was born. From 1960 to 1980, residents transformed the industrial neighborhood into an artist district, creating the conditions under which it evolved into an upper-income, gentrified area. Introducing the idea—still potent in city planning today—that art could be harnessed to drive municipal prosperity, SoHo was the forerunner of gentrified districts in cities nationwide, spawning the notion of the creative class. In The Lofts of SoHo, Aaron Shkuda studies the transition of the district from industrial space to artists’ enclave to affluent residential area, focusing on the legacy of urban renewal in and around SoHo and the growth of artist-led redevelopment. Shkuda explores conflicts between residents and property owners and analyzes the city’s embrace of the once-illegal loft conversion as an urban development strategy. As Shkuda explains, artists eventually lost control of SoHo’s development, but over several decades they nonetheless fo

Author

Aaron "Shkuda

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226334189

Subjects

History, Art, Arts