1st Edition
Spatial Regulation in New York City From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance
By Themis Chronopoulos
Copyright 2011
244 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
254 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
244 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Themis Chronopoulos is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K.
