{"product_id":"money-jungle-imagining-the-new-times-square-hardback-9780813541792","title":"Money Jungle; Imagining the New Times Square (Hardback) 9780813541792","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMoney Jungle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImagining the New Times Square\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBenjamin Chesluk (Author), Maggie Hopp (By (photographer))\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813541792\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 September 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 16 images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe strength of this book lies in Chesluk's ability to ground his ethnographic inquiries with a historically informed sensibility of the cultural career of redevelopment efforts in Times Square. Unique and innovative, Money Jungle represents an important contribution to urban anthropology and to the studies of cities generally.\u003c\/div\u003e - John Hartigan Jr. (Department of Anthropology, University of Texas) \u003cdiv\u003eMoney Jungle is a compelling ethnography that takes the reader on a layered and vivid tour of the people and forces that produce urban change. With his imaginative and multifaceted approach to an iconic site, Chesluk makes a strong contribution to anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.\u003c\/div\u003e - Lorna A. Rhodes (author of Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison) \u003cdiv\u003eAlternately Herculean and Sisyphean, the struggle to clean up Times Square has never been chronicled with more thoroughness or insight, nor with greater sensitivity to the ramifications of the attempt.\u003c\/div\u003e - Charles Ardai (founder and editor of Hard Case Crime) \u003cdiv\u003eThe strength of this book lies in CheslukÆs ability to ground his ethnographic inquiries with a historically informed sensibility of the cultural career of redevelopment efforts in Times Square. Unique and innovative, Money Jungle represents an important contribution to urban anthropology and to the studies of cities generally.\u003c\/div\u003e - John Hartigan Jr. (Department of Anthropology, University of Texas)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than a century, Times Square has mesmerized the world with the spectacle of its dazzling supersigns, its theaters, and its often-seedy nightlife. New York City’s iconic crossroads has drawn crowds of revelers, thrill-seekers, and other urban denizens, not to mention lavish outpourings of advertising and development money.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany have hotly debated the recent transformation of this legendary intersection, with voices typically falling into two opposing camps. Some applaud a blighted red-light district becoming a big-budget, mainstream destination. Others lament an urban zone of lawless possibility being replaced by a Disneyfied, theme-park version of New York. In \u003ci\u003eMoney Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e, Benjamin Chesluk shows that what is really at stake in Times Square are fundamental questions about city life-questions of power, pleasure, and what it means to be a citizen in contemporary urban space. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChesluk weaves together surprising stories of everyday life in and around the Times Square redevelopment, tracing the connections between people from every level of this grand project in social and spatial engineering: the developers, architects, and designers responsible for reshaping the urban public spaces of Times Square and Forty-second Street; the experimental Midtown Community Court and its Times Square Ink. job-training program for misdemeanor criminals; encounters between NYPD officers and residents of Hell’s Kitchen; and angry confrontations between city planners and neighborhood activists over the future of the area.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an eye for offbeat, telling details and a perspective that is at once sympathetic and critical, Chesluk documents how the redevelopment has tried, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, to reshape the people and places of Times Square. The result is a colorful and engaging portrait, illustrated by stunning photographs by long-time local photographer Maggie Hopp, of the street life, politics, economics, and cultural forces that mold America’s urban centers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e About the Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrilliant Corners: The Redevelopment of Times Square\\\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagnificent Spectacle: Real Estate, Theater, Advertising, and the History of Times Square \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ​Chapter Three\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Spaces of Times Square: Commerce, Social Control, and the Built Environment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ​Chapter Four\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Midtown Community Court: Intimacy and Power in an Experimental Courtroom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ​Chapter Five \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Square Ink.: Redevelopment of the Self\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ​Chapter Six\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003eVisible Signs of a City Out of Control\"\u003cbr\u003e: Images of Order and Disorder in Police-Community Dialogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ​Chapter Seven \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003eIt Doesn't Exist, But They're Selling It\"\u003cbr\u003e: The Debates over \"\u003cbr\u003eAir Rights\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ​Chapter Eight\u003cbr\u003e ​\u003ci\u003eConclusion: The Meanings of Times Square\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559285747992,"sku":"9780813541792","price":27.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/money-jungle-imagining-the-new-times-square-hardback-9780813541792","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}