287 pages
English language
Published March 14, 2013 by The Penguin Press.
Floating city
a rogue sociologist lost and found in New York's underground economy
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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.
Subjects
- Urban Sociology
- Informal sector (Economics)
Places
- New York (State)
- New York