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28%OFFElizabeth Currid-Halkett - The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City - New Edition - 9780691138749 - V9780691138749
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The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City - New Edition

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Description for The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City - New Edition Paperback. Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office - or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands? This title argues that creative industries like fashion, art, and music drive the economy of New York as much as - if not more than - finance, real estate, and law. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 halftones. 22 line illus. 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFC; JFSG; KC; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 176 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office--or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands? If you said "office," think again. In The Warhol Economy, Elizabeth Currid argues that creative industries like fashion, art, and music drive the economy of New York as much as--if not more than--finance, real estate, and law. And these creative industries are fueled by the social life that whirls around the clubs, galleries, music venues, and fashion shows where creative people meet, network, exchange ideas, pass judgments, and set the trends that shape popular culture. The implications ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
455g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691138749
SKU
V9780691138749
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Elizabeth Currid is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning, and Development. She holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from Columbia University and divides her time between New York and Los Angeles.

Reviews for The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City - New Edition
"[Currid] describes the organic, informal, social networking side of the creative arts in a mixed tone of Rolling Stone new journalism and objective reporting that serves to advance her central thesis: that as an independent drive of an urban economy, the arts and its related industries should stop being viewed as the beautiful step-child of city environments."
Susan Gardner, Daily Kos ... Read more

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