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Floating City

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Floating City

By Sudhir Venkatesh

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About the book

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. Float...Show more

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9780141977393

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2014

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1

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Floating City

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