The Jack Bigel Archive at Baruch College holds a copy of a pamphlet titled "Welcome to Fear City" published by the "Council on Public Safety" in 1975. The CPS was an amalgam of Fire and Police Unions who, facing massive layoffs by the city, joined to publicize to tourists the dangers of New York. The contents and impact of this stunt is documented in Miriam Greenberg's Branding New York: How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World.

Image from Slave-Unit, a series called "Welcome to Fear City." Inredible series of photos updating Atget's style for the urban paranoia set.

(http://www.slave-unit.co.uk/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=166&g2_page=2)

By the 1970s, Richard Sennett points out, anti-urban bias is not only observable in the right-wing, but on the revolutionary left, in the writings of Franz Fanon, and in Mao-Tse Tung and Fidel Castro's celebration of peasantry. Fanon held that "the necessity for bureacracy in a city an dthe anonymous character of human contacts were bound to destroy the feeling of closeness in men... these dense places would frighten men into pursuing safe routines where they knew they would not be overwhelmed. They would thus be pushed into private circles of security and eventually lost as revolutionaries" (Sennett, xv, Uses of Disorder - paraphrasing Fanon)