Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City

Prologue1. A Tale of Two Cities2. Taking the Trains: The Formation and Structure of Culture in the Early 1970s3. Writing Graffiti in the Public Sphere: The Construction of Writing as an Urban Problem4. Repainting the Trains: The New York School of the 1970s5. The State of the Subways: The Transit Crisis, the Aesthetics of Fear, and the Second War on Graffiti6. Writing Histories7. Retaking the Trains8. The Walls and the World: Writing Culture, 1982-1990Conclusion: A Spot on the WallAppendix: Sources from WritersNotesSelected BibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex