The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public SpaceGuilford Press, 2012 M02 21 - 270 pages Includes a 2014 Postscript addressing Occupy Wall Street and other developments. Efforts to secure the American city have life-or-death implications, yet demands for heightened surveillance and security throw into sharp relief timeless questions about the nature of public space, how it is to be used, and under what conditions. Blending historical and geographical analysis, this book examines the vital relationship between struggles over public space and movements for social justice in the United States. Don Mitchell explores how political dissent gains meaning and momentum--and is regulated and policed--in the real, physical spaces of the city. A series of linked cases provides in-depth analyses of early twentieth-century labor demonstrations, the Free Speech Movement and the history of People's Park in Berkeley, contemporary anti-abortion protests, and efforts to remove homeless people from urban streets. |
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Page ix
... LEFEBVRE, “The Right to the City” (1996 [1968]) The universal consequence of the crusade to secure the city is the destruction of any truly democratic space. —MIKE DAVIS, “Fortress Los Angeles” (1992) Introduction The Fight for Public ...
... LEFEBVRE, “The Right to the City” (1996 [1968]) The universal consequence of the crusade to secure the city is the destruction of any truly democratic space. —MIKE DAVIS, “Fortress Los Angeles” (1992) Introduction The Fight for Public ...
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... Lefebvre called " the right to the city . " That right , as I hope be- comes clear in the course of this book , is dependent upon public space . But just what public space is — and who has the right to it — is rarely clear , and ...
... Lefebvre called " the right to the city . " That right , as I hope be- comes clear in the course of this book , is dependent upon public space . But just what public space is — and who has the right to it — is rarely clear , and ...
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... Lefebvre was anticipating with his polemic on the right to the city). In Berkeley, this critique eventually coalesced into the People's Park movement, and so the chapter ends by exploring the roots of and early struggles over People's ...
... Lefebvre was anticipating with his polemic on the right to the city). In Berkeley, this critique eventually coalesced into the People's Park movement, and so the chapter ends by exploring the roots of and early struggles over People's ...
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... Lefebvre argues that the right to the city is “like a cry and a demand.” Now, more than ever, that cry, that de- mand, must be heard. And it must be put into practice. NOTES 1. Interestingly, Vidler does not discuss the decentralization ...
... Lefebvre argues that the right to the city is “like a cry and a demand.” Now, more than ever, that cry, that de- mand, must be heard. And it must be put into practice. NOTES 1. Interestingly, Vidler does not discuss the decentralization ...
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... Lefebvre 1996) is highly abstract and arcane, little more than a set of notes, many of which would later be expanded upon in Lefebvre's (1991 [1974]) magnum opus, The Produc- tion of Space.11 But within this rather arch argument about ...
... Lefebvre 1996) is highly abstract and arcane, little more than a set of notes, many of which would later be expanded upon in Lefebvre's (1991 [1974]) magnum opus, The Produc- tion of Space.11 But within this rather arch argument about ...
Contents
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Locational Conflict and the Right to the City | 81 |
Peoples Park the Public and the Right to the City | 118 |
AntiHomeless Laws and the Shrinking Landscape of Rights | 161 |
AntiHomeless Campaigns Public Space Zoning and the Problem of Necessity | 195 |
Toward a Just City | 227 |
Now What Has Changed? | 238 |
References | 247 |
Index | 271 |
About the Author | 278 |
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