Spatial Regulation in New York City

From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-89158-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Geography

This book explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, examining the ideological underpinnings and practical applications of urban renewal, exclusionary zoning, anti-vagrancy laws, and order-maintenance policing. It argues that these practices were part of a class project that deflected attention from the underlying causes of poverty, eroded civil rights, and sought to enable real estate investment, high-end consumption, mainstream tourism, and corporate success.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chronopoulos, Themis

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Betrayal of the Liberal Assumptions of Urban Renewal 2. The Failure of Urban Renewal as a Spatial Ordering Apparatus 3. Times Square: New York’s Most Disorderly Place 4. Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and Spatial Regulation 5. Graffiti as a Manifestation of Social Disorder 6. The Declining Appearance of Order, 1978-1993 7. The Radicalization of Spatial Regulation, 1994-2001. Epilogue: The Legacy of Displacement and Exclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Themis Chronopoulos is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.