.."."It is an important contribution to urban studies that will be
appreciated for years to come..""
-Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University and CUNY Graduate Center,
and author of "Sidewalk
..."This is a smart, cogent book that thinks big and attends to
details with equal virtuosity..""
-Carlo Rotella, author of "Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen,
and Other Characters from the Rust Belt
..."It is theoretically knowledgeable, substantively rich, and
intellectually smart."
."
-Harvey Molotch, author of "Where Stuff Comes From and coauthor of
"Urban Fortunes
"But as thorough (and commendably dogma- and jargon-free) as Lloyd
is on background, it is in the "field" that he shines, bringing
abstract concepts to life with a real feel for the 'new economy'
bars, galleries and high-tech startups, as well as the often
happily exploited people who work in them. Trading high wages for
the romance of bohemia, the bartenders, baristas and code punchers
of Wicker Park are evolving new codes and values often strikingly
at odds with suburban ones, and Lloyd's study gives their evolution
a wealth of nuanced human detail. This combination of solid
research and a good ear gives Lloyd's book an unusual depth; none
of his readers is likely to undertip an eyebrow-studded waitserver
anytime soon."
-Publisher's Weekly
"Some of Lloyd's best work comes in his dissection of Wicker Park's
economy, which depends largely on its hip, young residents either
working long hours as bartenders or waitstaff, or long hours in
various digital design occupations. This is fascinating, original
and deeply humane sociology at its finest; ..."
."
-Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com, November 17,2005
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