Innovation complex. Cities, technology and new economy. Zukin Sh.

The book of the famous urbanist, professor of sociologists Sharon Zukin “Innovation Complex” shows how the new city economy is formed by enterprises and organizations operating in the field of digital technology, city authorities and techno-financial meritocracy. Carefully studying the “innovations” in New York since the fall of the city’s economy as a result of the collapse of the dotcomes in 2000 before its formation as the second largest ecosystem of startups in the 2010s, the book explores the emergence of new organizational, geographical and discursive spaces, which Literally root digital production on the ground, forming technically competent labor force, public-private non-profit partnerships and aggressive entrepreneurial culture.

The book begins with the study of the city subcattens and mitapov, describes the career of the founders of New York startups and venture capitalists , and also traces the transformation of the Brooklyn Embankment from the industrial wasteland to the “shore of innovation”. Analyzing the connections between local networks and global capital, the author shows how the model of innovation of the Silicon Valley is urbanized in large cities, such as New York, where an influential alliance between business circles, city authorities and the leadership of universities recalls the concept of a sovereign elite proposed by Charles Wright Mills. Paradoxical, but while the economy of the XXI century. Makes the cities more successful, they also become less suitable for the life of those who cannot reap the fruits of technological innovation.