The New Politics of New York in the Seventies

The new politics that you describe emerging from the 19 70 crisis is emerging as well from this broader new economic order, including very much have it relating to the spatial dynamics of that order. You had capital and middle class and affluent taxpayers moving which meant jobs and tax revenue moving - creating a sharply segregated political an economic order. And even bigger picture, you hove the entire reorientation of american political economy towards the sun belt. Anan maybe i'll move back to beam and also the politics of the sixties and what's changing there. The city leaders were not able to cut back. They continued to develop differentu rather than cut back. This led to the fiscal crisis.