An event to celebrate the publication of:
Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai (Routledge, 2015)
– Sharon Zukin, Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center
– Philip Kasinitz, Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center
– Xiangming Chen, Dean and Director, Center for Urban and Global Studies and Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology, Trinity College, Hartford
— A reception will follow the event —
Place: The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street) Rook 6112 (Sociology Lounge)
Global Cities, Local Streets: Spaces of Everyday Diversity, a cutting edge text/ethnography, reports on the rapidly expanding field of global, urban studies through a unique pairing of 6 teams of urban researchers from around the world. The authors present shopping streets from each city – New York, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Berlin, Toronto, and Tokyo – how they have changed over the years, and how they illustrate globalization embedded in local communities. This is an ideal addition to courses in urbanization, consumption, and globalization.