Branding New York How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World [Paperback]

Winner of the 2009 Robert Park Book Awardfor best Community and Urban Sociology book!

Branding New York traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. Greenberg addresses the role of image in urban history, showing who produces brands and how, and demonstrates the enormous consequences of branding. She shows that the branding of New York was not simply a marketing tool; rather it was a political strategy meant to legitimatize market-based solutions over social objectives.

Introduction: New York, Capital of the 1970s.  Prologue: From the Standpoint of the Out-of-Towner  1. Branding and the Neoliberal City  Part 1: From Image Crisis to Fiscal Crisis: 1964-1974  2.Its a Small World After All: The Rise of New York Media the End of Boosterism  3. Style & Power: the Common Sense of New York Magazine  4. Selling the City in Crisis: Big Apple and the Invention of the Public Private Partnership  Part 2: The Battle to Brand New York: 1975-1985  5.Welcome to Fear City  6. The Limits of Branding: From 'Big Apple' to the 'Summer of Sam'  7. Purging New York through I? NY  8. Conclusion: The Legacy of the 1970s  9. New York City as a Symbol of Neoliberalism.  Epilogue: Re-Branding New York after the World Trade Center

 

A cunning, wonderfully dialectical analysis - Mike Davis, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

  I love New York. I am equally taken by Miriam Greenberg's fascinating account of how powerful political interests invented this famous slogan lÃ-