Book report
You are advised to pick one of the following books and write a book review.
LIST OF BOOKS
FLOATING CITY- A ROGUE SOCIOLOGIST LOST AND FOUND IN NEW YORKS UNDERGROUND ECONOMY, By SUDHIR VENKATESH, The Penguin Press, New York, 2013
MAKING A GLOBAL IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD: BROOKLYN’S SUNSET PARK, By Tarry Hum Temple University Press. PA, 2014
SIDEWALK, By Mitchell Duneier, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, USA, 2001
HEAT WAVE: A SOCIAL AUTOPSY OF DISASTER IN CHICAGO, By Eric Klingenberg, University of Chicago Press, USA, 2002
AMERICAN PROJECT: THE RISE AND FALL OF A MODERN GHETTO, By Sudhir A. Venkates, Harvard University Press, USA, 2002
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES, BY JANE JACOBS, Random House, NY, 1961/Vintage Book Edition, 1992
BECOMING NEW YORKERS: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE NEW SECOND GENERATION, By Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf and, Mary C. Waters (Editors), The Russell Sage Foundation, NY, 2004
THE NEW YORK NOBODY KNOWS-WALKING 6000 MILES IN THE CITY, By William B Helmrich, Princeton University Press, USA, 2011
Note: Books are available on Amazon or similar sites. I suggest you buy the used one which is cost-effective. Or, you can write a book review of a book that you have in your library. If so, please inform your instructor (by email) about the title and author of the book.
must be double spaced 2 pages
