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Faculty Spotlight: Andy Battle on Capitalism and Urbanization, Eric Adams, Cop City, and the Right to the City

The Podcast for Social Research

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Eric Adams' New York City: A Virtual City

I think it's interesting, irony, that the ecological is being brought into play here through the destruction of the forest. I mean, this gets us back to Eric Adams's New York. Policing is what is left when you can't or won't enact the thoroughgoing transformations in social relationships That would actually, as you say, address the problems that we're living. Yes and no. It's different from de Blasio in some small and one meaningful way. Both were constrained by the broader political economy that is epitomized in the public private partnership and privatization of the city more generally.

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