Title: Floating city
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.
Subjects: Urban Sociology, Informal sector (Economics), Sociology, urban, New york (n.y.), social conditions
Places: New York (State), New York
People: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh