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Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy by Sudhir Venkatesh
Format: mobi/epub
Print Length: 304 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction/Economics/Sociology/Crime
Published: 12 September 2013
"A fascinating X-ray of the city...Venkatesh's engrossing narrative dissects the intricacies of illegal commerce." - Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York's underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich and poor that secretly weaves together the whole city.
Sudhir Venkatesh, acclaimed sociologist at Columbia University and author of Gang Leader for a Day, returns to the streets to connect the dots of New York's divergent economic worlds and crack the code of the city's underground economy.
Based on Venkatesh's interviews with 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 memoir of sociological investigation, Floating City draws from Venkatesh?s decade of research within the affluent communities of Upper East Side socialites and Midtown businessmen, the drug gangs of Harlem and the sex workers of Brooklyn, the artists of Tribeca and the escort services of Hell's Kitchen.
Author:
SUDHIR VENKATESH is the William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology and a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. His most recent book is Gang Leader for a Day, a New York Times bestseller that received a best book of the year award from The Economist. Venkatesh's writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post. He lives in New York City.
