SHOW NOTES Returning champion David A. Banks joins us for a supersized discussion about his new book, The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America. How do cities have to act like social media influencers to attract new flows of capital? How are fundamental dynamics of capitalist urban development — growth machines, rent gaps, spatial fixes, destructive renovation, entrepreneurial competition — updated and upgraded to fit into the techno-financial conditions of today? Why does every downtown have the same damn wine bar now? Join us for answers to all these questions and much more.
••• David’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383456/the-city-authentic
••• David’s twitter: https://twitter.com/DA_Banks
••• David’s substack: https://otherday.substack.com/
:soypoint-1: 2 hour Marxist geography mega pod
I will give this a listen. I have never heard of this podcast and this is the closest thing we have to bumping into someone at a book store and them “yo check this out.” So I will in fact check this out.
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