City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics

by Alex S. Vitale

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814788173
• ISBN13: 9780814788172
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"