[Zukin's] gift is to track the political economy of the particular cultural desires of an era, and concern for the interplay between cultural production and the production of urban space has been a constant as she has charted New York City's packaging of creativity, authenticity, and now, innovation." - Hillary Angelo, European Journal of Sociolog
Sharon Zukin is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of Naked City (Oxford).