Book Launch: “Money Jungle” by Ben Chesluk (New York, NY, USA)
Monday, November 26th, 2007 by Whitney Quesenbery| December 3, 2007 | ||
| 12:00 pm |
Interested in Times Square, architecture, urban ethnography, or just want a few nibbles? Drop by Le Madeleine, 403 W. 43rd St. on Monday 3 December from noon to 1:30 pm for the launch of anthrodesigner Ben Chesluk’s “Money Jungle: Imagining the New Times Square.”
The jacket blurb says “Chesluk weaves together surprising stories of everyday life in and around the Times Square redevelopment, tracing the connections between people from every level of this grand project in social and spatial engineering.”
One review says, “The strength of this book lies in Chesluk’s ability to ground his ethnographic inquiries with a historically informed sensibility of the cultural career of redevelopment efforts in Times Square. Unique and innovative, Money Jungle represents an important contribution to urban anthropology and to the studies of cities generally.”
