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

摘要

New York City history is often explained in terms of great men: Peter Stuyvesant whipped unruly drunkards into a productive colony; DeWitt Clinton manhandled the natural landscape to create a commercial powerhouse; and Robert Moses hacked through neighborhoods to lay the foundation for a modern global city. Many people include Rudolph Giuliani on this list for achieving dramatic reductions in crime and other socially disruptive behaviors. Alex S. Vitale is not one of those people.