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"In City of Disorder, Alex Vitale provides a wise and balanced
analysis of the preoccupation with social order in New York City
that flowered under Giuliani's watch. On the one side, neoliberal
housing and employment markets were increasing the numbers of
people who were displaced and homeless. The failure of government
on all levels to regulate the market forces driving this
development, or to intervene to provide alternatives for the people
affected, meant that people coped as they always have, by camping
on the streets and panhandling, and by turning to drugs and drink.
These behaviors in turn created popular political support for the
coercive social controls that came to characterize city policy in
the nineties. But neither the homeless nor the public were
responsible for the limited alternatives which drove this mean
result."
--Frances Fox Piven, author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs
of Bush's Militarism
"Vitale presents an important critical analysis of 'quality of
life' and 'zero tolerance' policing that have serious civil rights
and civil liberties implications and are too often accepted,
without careful scrutiny, as the solution to urban problems."
&m#8212;Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York
Civil Liberties Union
New York in the 1990s faced a aquality of lifea crisis of
homelessness and public disorder. In response, frustrated local
residents embraced the neoconservative ideas of Rudolph Giuliani,
who pledged to restore order through aggressive policing and
punitive social policies, shifting the focus of government from
improving the lives of the needy to protecting the welfare of
themiddle and upper classes. In exploring this development, Alex S.
Vitale shows why historically liberal New York has voted against
Democrats in the last four mayoral elections.
In City of Disorder, Vitale uses neighborhood case studies and
city-wide economic development data to investigate the rise of
punitive urban social policies. His findings show that the
neoconservative backlash against the homeless and poor was a direct
result of urban liberalismas embracing of neoliberal economic
development strategies and its unwillingness to use local resources
to respond to the disorder it helped create in a way that empowered
communities and brought positive change to those on the
margins.
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