At the Urban Scale: The Control and Appropriation of

Social Space

Controlling Space and Appropriating Places: the Dynamics of
Policing and Urban Order in Twentieth-century United States
Cities

Yann Philippe and Aurlien Gillier



Max Schmittberger, [between ca. 1910 and ca.
1915], Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540
USA
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The territorial mandate of the police

It is made the duty of police officers at all hours of day and
night to generally to preserve the public peace suppress
riots, mobs and insurrections, disperse unlawful or dangerous
assemblages which obstruct the sidewalks, streets, parks and
public places, to regulate traffic in the public streets to
remove all nuisances, arrest mendicants, to provide
adequate police presence in case of fires, to assist, advise and
protect emigrants, strangers and travellers in the public
streets, wharfs, railroad stations, to observe and inspect all
amusement places, places having excise and houses of ill-
repute, or prostitution and lottery places and rat and cock
pits and all public dance halls .
Charter of New York City, Laws of the State of New York, 124
th
Session,
1901, vol. 3, p. 136-137 (for a shorter version see NYPD, Annual Report,
1918, p. 10.

Manhattan Precincts
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Fixed Posts, Manhattan, NYC
NYPD, Annual Report, 1912, p. 38

Fixed Posts, Manhattan, NYC
NYPD, Annual Report, 1912, p. 38

National Guard patrols during Detroit Riots.Photo by Dennis Brack, July
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to the press. (Source: Chicago Defender Archives).
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Singin' in the Rain, S. Donen, 1952
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