Alex S. Vitale

City of Disorder (eBook, ePUB)

How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

2009 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design
In the 1990s, improving the quality of life became a primary focus and a popular catchphrase of the governments of New York and many other American cities. Faced with high levels of homelessness and other disorders associated with a growing disenfranchised population, then mayor Rudolph Giuliani led New York's zero tolerance campaign against what was perceived to be an increase in disorder that directly threatened social and economic stability. In a traditionally liberal city, the focus had shifted dramatically from improving the lives of the needy to protecting the welfare of the middle and upper classesa decidedly neoconservative move.
In City of Disorder, Alex S. Vitale analyzes this drive to restore moral order which resulted in an overhaul of the way New York views such social problems as prostitution, graffiti, homelessness, and panhandling. Through several fascinating case studies of New York neighborhoods and an in-depth look at the dynamics of the NYPD and of the city's administration itself, Vitale explains why Republicans have won the last four New York mayoral elections and what the long-term impact Giuliani's zero tolerance method has been on a city historically known for its liberalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780814788202
• Artikelnr.: 49726427

Autorenporträt

Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is the author of The End of Policing (Verso) and City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics (NYU Press, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction
1. Conceptualizing the Paradigm Shift
2. Defining the "Quality of Life" Paradigm
3. Defining Urban Liberalism
4. The Rise of Disorder
5. Globalization and the Urban Crisis
6. The Transformation of Policing
7. The Commun