SoHo Zuked Again & Me Exploited

by Richard Kostelanetz (June 2015)

Since Rutgers University Press has recently published a “25^th Anniversary Edition” of Sharon Zukin’s Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change, I want first to recycle (from this periodical) my earlier review of the 1989 paperback reprint, also from Rutgers University Press, that acknowledges only on its copyright page an earlier 1982 “cloth” edition from Johns Hopkins University Press. (Apparently, its seven years in print don’t count within the 25.) No dates appear in either of this new book’s two prefaces or in the “Postscript to the Paperback Edition.” The back cover from 1989 says that Zukin teaches “urban sociology and urban political economy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.” Later, she became the Broeklundian Professor of Sociology. Also bear in mind that I authored The Rise and Fall of Artists’ SoHo (Routledge, 2003) which I’ve rewritten as Artists’ SoHo (Fordham University Press, 2015) and that my earlier review was privately circulated as well.  more>>>