Sharon Zukin is an urban sociologist whose work documents how culture and capital shape contemporary cities, from gentrified global enclaves to innovation districts. Her book Loft Living (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982) is the classic account of SoHo’s postindustrial transformation, a critical approach that extends through Landscapes of Power (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award), The Cultures of Cities, Naked City (winner of the Jane Jacobs Award for Urban Communication), and The Innovation Complex, as well as After the Trade Center (edited with Michael Sorkin) and Global Cities, Local Streets (edited with Philip Kasinitz and Xiangming Chen). Her books have been translated into nine other languages. Zukin is professor emerita of sociology and of earth and environmental sciences at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and has been a visiting professor at universities in Amsterdam, Sydney, and Shanghai. 

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