Metropolitics

New York Dossier: The Food Industry Faces the Covid‑19 Pandemic

Sharon Zukin — 2021-09-14T05:00:00Z

Metropolitics is pleased to present the second dossier coordinated by faculty and students in the PhD program in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), which explore New York City–specific issues. This dossier, comprising four articles, examines New York City's food industry in the face of the Covid‑19 pandemic. Sharon Zukin introduces the series, with articles by Thomas R. Chung, Nga Than, and Ivana Mellers to follow.
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- Series / food, food culture, Covid-19, coronavirus, food industry, New York, United States

New York Tech Dossier: The Dark Side of New York's Tech Economy

Sharon Zukin — 2020-01-07T07:00:00Z

Metropolitics is pleased to present the first of a series of dossiers coordinated by faculty and students in the PhD program in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. These dossiers explore New York City-specific issues. The first dossier, comprising three articles, examines New York's tech economy; others will follow. The first article in this dossier, by Sharon Zukin, will be followed by articles by Joanna Dressel and Max Papadantonakis.
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New York Tech Dossier: “Innovation Districts” in New York: Contentious Geographies of Growth

Sharon Zukin — 2020-01-07T06:30:00Z

Sharon Zukin analyzes how city government in New York has supported concentrations of tech firms—“innovation districts”—and how communities have pushed back.
---- Series: New York Tech Dossier: The Dark Side of New York's Tech Economy Since the Great Recession of 2008, New York City has emerged among the biggest “startup ecosystems” in the world (Mulas and Gastelu-Iturri 2016; Startup Genome 2019). Public- and private-sector investment, growth in tech jobs, and agglomeration of companies and

- Essays / Big Tech, tech economy, tech sector, information technology, United States, New York, innovation, innovation districts