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The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
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One of Dazed's Best NonFiction Books of 2023
The first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencers—and why it works.
Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In The City Authentic, author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming themselves to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living through the attentiongrabbing tactics of social media influencers and realityTV stars.
Blending insightful analysi...
The first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencers—and why it works.
Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In The City Authentic, author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming themselves to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living through the attentiongrabbing tactics of social media influencers and realityTV stars.
Blending insightful analysi...