City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York PoliticsNYU Press, 2008 M04 1 - 252 páginas 2009 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design |
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... Mayor Art Agnos had made extensive efforts to address what appeared at first to be a short-term problem made worse ... mayor's response was to begin to target home- less people in certain high-visibility areas of the city such as ...
... Mayor Ed- ward Koch rescinded the curfew in the face of organized community opposition to it because of the absence of an adequate alternative place for the people to go to. But by the summer of 1989 the park was again besieged by the ...
... Mayor David Dinkins , a liberal Democrat , expanded this ap- proach with the sweeping of Tompkins Square Park and numerous other public encampments . In 1993 , Mayor Dinkins also initiated a po- lice enforcement effort targeting ...
... Mayor David Dinkins's administration, New York City focused on maintaining the city's mammoth emergency shelter system and creating permanent and transitional housing, as well as a network of social services. Rhetori- cally, Dinkins ...
... mayor in the last four elections , despite the city's being about 80 percent Democratic . Many urban scholars have been interested in this apparent abandonment of liberalism in New York and other major cities . Some have concentrated on ...
Contenido
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Defining Urban Liberalism | 54 |
The Rise of Disorder | 70 |
Globalization and the Urban Crisis | 93 |
The Transformation of Policing | 115 |
The Community Backlash | 144 |
Conclusion | 183 |
Notes | 195 |
Bibliography | 215 |
Index | 223 |
About the Author | 231 |
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City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics Alex S. Vitale Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics Alex S. Vitale Vista previa limitada - 2008 |