Spatial Regulation in New York City

<p>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.</p>