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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... residents from all social strata. The term quality of life has come to mean more than a set of policies, however; it also is a new way of thinking about urban social problems that attrib- utes neighborhood decline to the presence of ...
... residents felt that their public spaces were becoming unusable. Residents awoke to find people sleeping on their front stoops; merchants found encamp- ments in their doorways and panhandlers on their sidewalks at all hours; and the ...
... residents. He was arrested in 1989 after he caused $10,000 to $20,000 in damage by throwing bricks through the stained-glass windows at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, at 1 West Ninety-sixth Street. After being psychologically ...
... residents around West Ninety-sixth Street were continually threatened by Hogue's presence in the neighborhood, often feeling that it was not safe to walk down their own block when he was around, for fear of his constant verbal and even ...
... Residents formed new neighborhood groups designed to pressure the city to take action, which it did on August 6, 1988. That night, police evicted people in the park after midnight, sparking a riot as park dwell- ers, along with many ...
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 |