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Urban Govt. Practitioners

As one embarks upon a career that involves being a practitioner of urban government, there are myriad issues that affect one’s ability to understand such a position and its role in modern urban government. I believe Sophie Body-Gendrot makes some very important and insightful observations in her book The Social Control of Cities? that engender some meaningful questions regarding social and political conditions and administration in New York City. For one, Body-Gendrot gives us a very unique perspective in that she renders a comparative analysis of violence, and ways of dealing with it, in major urban areas around the globe including Paris, New York, Chicago and Marseilles. This is very important and significant to political administration because many global economic powers are centered in these urban areas and to ignore their impact on modern political administration of these areas is to ignore the changing influence of a global economy on modern urban political administration.

However, an even fuller understanding of political administration is glimpsed through Body-Gendrot’s comparison of the ways the state manages social disorder in New York versus Paris. The French handling of social disorder is based on traditional values such as equality, social prevention, welfare, and state intervention to prevent marginality and unrest. The American perspective, however, is different. For the emphasis in the American management of urban violence and social disorder includes individualism, self-help, deterrence, punishment, and sanctions homicide by the state (i.e., the death penalty). In giving us such a comparison we do not automatically reject the American system in favor of a French system that achieves successes like the one Body-Gendrot shows happened in the town of Pierrefitte, Seine St-Denis. Instead, we begin to question the role of practitioners of urban government in our own so

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