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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... housing. Within a few years, how- ever, the problem had become worse, with homeless people encamped throughout the city, undermining the usability of parks, sidewalks, and other public spaces. The mayor's response was to begin to target ...
... housing. Within a few years, how- ever, the problem had become worse, with homeless people encamped throughout the city, undermining the usability of parks, sidewalks, and other public spaces. The mayor's response was to begin to target ...
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... housing and residential mental health and drug treatment facili- ties or to look at the ways in which housing and labor markets were be- ing altered by both global and local political and economic factors. As the recession gave way to ...
... housing and residential mental health and drug treatment facili- ties or to look at the ways in which housing and labor markets were be- ing altered by both global and local political and economic factors. As the recession gave way to ...
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... housing.4 Most of these people stayed in shelters, meaning that they were not a visible presence at night. In many cases, however, even those staying in the shelter system were forced out in the early morning to fend for themselves ...
... housing.4 Most of these people stayed in shelters, meaning that they were not a visible presence at night. In many cases, however, even those staying in the shelter system were forced out in the early morning to fend for themselves ...
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... housing or social services or improving labor market opportunities for those with limited skills , Giuliani dramatically expanded the size and role of the police department . The NYPD became the agency of first resort for complaints ...
... housing or social services or improving labor market opportunities for those with limited skills , Giuliani dramatically expanded the size and role of the police department . The NYPD became the agency of first resort for complaints ...
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... housing, as well as a network of social services. Rhetori- cally, Dinkins emphasized the plight of homeless families and children in an attempt to portray them as the deserving poor. But two years into Dinkins's term of office, he began ...
... housing, as well as a network of social services. Rhetori- cally, Dinkins emphasized the plight of homeless families and children in an attempt to portray them as the deserving poor. But two years into Dinkins's term of office, he began ...
Contenido
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| 29 | |
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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Página 33 - Improving the Quality of Urban Life and states: The Congress hereby finds and declares that improving the quality of urban life is the most critical domestic problem facing the United States.
Página 65 - Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.
Página 34 - Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966". TITLE I— COMPREHENSIVE CITY DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF PURPOSE SEC. 101. The Congress hereby finds and declares that improving the quality of urban life is the most critical domestic problem facing the United States. The persistence of widespread urban slums and blight, the concentration of persons of low income in older urban areas, and the unmet needs for additional housing and community facilities and services...
Página 36 - Now I realize that the argument is often made that there is a fundamental contradiction between economic growth and the quality of life, so that to have one we must forsake the other. The answer is not to abandon growth but to redirect it
Página 58 - Those generally implicated by the imprecise terms of the ordinance — poor people, nonconformists, dissenters, idlers— may be required to comport themselves according to the lifestyle deemed appropriate by the Jacksonville police and the courts.
Página 203 - Dolbeare and Barry Zigas, A Place to Call Home: The Low Income Housing Crisis Continues (Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Low-Income Housing Information Service, 1991). 10. Alan Finder, "Apartment Doubling-up Hits the Working Class," New York Times, September 25, 1990.
Página 200 - Howard S. Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (New York: Free Press, 1963).
Página 33 - Let us be clear about the core of this problem. The problem is people and the quality of the lives they lead.
Página 33 - The problems of the city are problems of housing and education. They involve increasing employment and ending poverty. They call for beauty and nature, recreation, and an end to racial discrimination. They are, in large measure, the problems of American society itself. They call for a generosity of vision, a breadth of approach, a magnitude of effort which we have not yet brought to bear on the American city.
Página 33 - We want to build not just housing units but neighborhoods; not just to construct schools, but to educate children; not just to raise income, but to create beauty and end the poisoning of our environment.