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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... streets and the willingness to fully engage the police in a pro- gram of harassment, intimidation, and arrests. By 1992, public frustration with Agnos's failure to “solve” home- lessness through either progressive or regressive means ...
... street corners, as well as panhandlers and squeegee men, were viewed as a source rather than a symptom of urban decline. The government's re- sponse was to treat these groups as a major threat to public order and to place them at the ...
... streets. The gov- ernment produced a number of emergency responses, including shelters, soup kitchens, and a variety of social services designed to get people back on their feet. In these early days, homelessness was often viewed ...
... streets became omnipresent assaults on the population's sensibilities. The focus gradu- ally shifted from how to help homeless people to how to reduce the im- pact of homelessness on the rest of society. As a result, society's charita ...
... streets have been difficult to gauge, in part owing to the extent and scope of the problem, but the most reli- able figures are the number of people relying on emergency shelters on any given night. In October 1986, New York City's ...
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 |