Floating city
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Based on Venkatesh's interviews with New York City prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high end drug bosses and street-level dealers, "Floating City" exposes the underground as the city's true engine of social transformation and economic prosperity--revealing a wholly unprecedented vision of New York. A remarkable memoir of sociological investigation.
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Sign InUrban SociologyInformal sector (Economics)Sociology, urbanNew york (n.y.), social conditions
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First Published
2013
Pages
287 pages
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Editions
3
Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Language
ENG
Status
Published
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