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Floating City: Hustlers, Strivers, Dealers, Call Girls and Other Lives in Illicit New York
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After his insider’s study of Chicago crack gangs electrified the academy, Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent a decade immersed in New York’s underbelly, observing the call girls, drug dealers, prostitutes and other strivers that make up this booming underground economy. Amidst the trust-funder cocktail parties, midtown strip clubs, and immigrant-run sex shops, he discovers a surprisingly fluid and dynamic social world – one that can be found in global cities everywhere. Floating City is Venkatesh’s journey through the ‘vast invisible continent’ of New York’s underground economy – a thriving yet largely unseen world that exists in parallel to our own.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.223 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.7 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 304 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2014-9-4 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0141977396 |
| About The Author | Sudhir Venkatesh is the William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology, and the Committee on Global Thought, at Columbia University. His last book Gang Leader for a Day, based on the decade he spent with the Black Kings gang in Chicago, was an international bestseller and received a Best Book award from The Economist. He lives in New York City. |
A deeply researched, revealing study… novelistic… an unexpectedly vivid image of a New York not many get to see |
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