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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... people encamped throughout the city, undermining the usability of parks, sidewalks, and other public spaces. The mayor's response was to begin to target home- less people in certain high-visibility areas of the city such as Golden Gate ...
... people encamped throughout the city, undermining the usability of parks, sidewalks, and other public spaces. The mayor's response was to begin to target home- less people in certain high-visibility areas of the city such as Golden Gate ...
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... people were portrayed as the cause of urban blight, and aggressive policing was held out as the solution. This book is an attempt to explain how this dy- namic of urban politics emerged in the hopes that a new progressive ur- ban ...
... people were portrayed as the cause of urban blight, and aggressive policing was held out as the solution. This book is an attempt to explain how this dy- namic of urban politics emerged in the hopes that a new progressive ur- ban ...
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... people and the aban- donment of the liberal ideals of reducing economic and social inequality which guaranteed basic universal human rights, and promoted social tolerance. This process can be most clearly seen through the lens of the ...
... people and the aban- donment of the liberal ideals of reducing economic and social inequality which guaranteed basic universal human rights, and promoted social tolerance. This process can be most clearly seen through the lens of the ...
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... people grew, and their impact on the daily life of the city became more problematic as subways, sidewalks, and parks became the living rooms for tens of thousands of people. At the same time, these people's connection to any specific ...
... people grew, and their impact on the daily life of the city became more problematic as subways, sidewalks, and parks became the living rooms for tens of thousands of people. At the same time, these people's connection to any specific ...
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... people could be found in all parts of the city, both above and below ground. Estimates of the number of people living in shelters and on the streets have been difficult to gauge, in part owing to the extent and scope of the problem, but ...
... people could be found in all parts of the city, both above and below ground. Estimates of the number of people living in shelters and on the streets have been difficult to gauge, in part owing to the extent and scope of the problem, but ...
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.