Floating city

By Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Subjects: Informal sector (Economics), Sociology, urban, Urban Sociology, Informal sector (economics), New york (n.y.), social conditions

Description: 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.