# Floating City

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- Authors: [Sudhir Venkatesh](https://www.bookquiver.com/sudhir-venkatesh)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-09-12

## Description

After his insider's study of Chicago crack gangs electrified the academy, Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent a decade immersed in New York's underbelly, observing the call girls, drug dealers, prostitutes and other strivers that make up this booming underground economy. Amidst the trust-funder cocktail parties, midtown strip clubs, and immigrant-run sex shops, he discovers a surprisingly fluid and dynamic social world - one that can be found in global cities everywhere. Floating City is Venkatesh's journey through the 'vast invisible continent' of New York's underground economy - a thriving yet largely unseen world that exists in parallel to our own.

## Editions

### Floating City

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-739-3
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2014-09-04
- Language: en_GB

### Floating City

- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4312-579-2
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2014-08-26
- Language: en_US

### Floating City

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4100-276-6
- Published: 2013-09-12
- Language: en_GB