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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... subway stairways, and sleeping in public parks. This transformation in the quality of life in New York and many other American cities was more than the creation of some new policing tactics or the construction of a new philosophy of the ...
... subway stairways, and sleeping in public parks. This transformation in the quality of life in New York and many other American cities was more than the creation of some new policing tactics or the construction of a new philosophy of the ...
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... subways, sidewalks, and parks became the living rooms for tens of thousands of people. At the same time, these ... subway system and parks became massive home- less shelters for thousands of people. Physical and social disorder in ...
... subways, sidewalks, and parks became the living rooms for tens of thousands of people. At the same time, these ... subway system and parks became massive home- less shelters for thousands of people. Physical and social disorder in ...
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... subway alone housed thousands of people in stations, tunnels, and subway cars. Many of them set up full-time residences in out-of-the-way corners of stations or deep in the labyrinth of tunnels and service rooms below ground. Those ...
... subway alone housed thousands of people in stations, tunnels, and subway cars. Many of them set up full-time residences in out-of-the-way corners of stations or deep in the labyrinth of tunnels and service rooms below ground. Those ...
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... subway stations, and even doorways. Automated teller machines and the fronts of all-night markets were favorite spots for round-the-clock panhandling and sleep- ing, with occasional late-night battles over the prime spots. Many resi ...
... subway stations, and even doorways. Automated teller machines and the fronts of all-night markets were favorite spots for round-the-clock panhandling and sleep- ing, with occasional late-night battles over the prime spots. Many resi ...
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... Subways Conditions in the city's subway system also were at a low point in 1989. The New York Transit Authority (TA) estimated that more than two thousand people were living in the system's stations and trains, but advocates maintained ...
... Subways Conditions in the city's subway system also were at a low point in 1989. The New York Transit Authority (TA) estimated that more than two thousand people were living in the system's stations and trains, but advocates maintained ...
Contenido
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| 15 | |
| 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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City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics Alex S. Vitale Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
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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.