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 vii
... City Nonconformists, Anarchists, and Communists: Free Speech in Berkeley 83 From Free Speech to Counterculture: Urban Renewal and the Battle for People's Park 105 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 The End of Public Space?: People's vii Contents.
... City Nonconformists, Anarchists, and Communists: Free Speech in Berkeley 83 From Free Speech to Counterculture: Urban Renewal and the Battle for People's Park 105 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 The End of Public Space?: People's vii Contents.
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... People's Park as a Public Space? Coda 152 151 The Annihilation of Space by Law: Anti-Homeless Laws and the Shrinking Landscape of Rights The Annihilating Economy 163 The Annihilation of People by Law 167 The Problem of Regulation 173 ...
... People's Park as a Public Space? Coda 152 151 The Annihilation of Space by Law: Anti-Homeless Laws and the Shrinking Landscape of Rights The Annihilating Economy 163 The Annihilation of People by Law 167 The Problem of Regulation 173 ...
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... People's Park movement, and so the chapter ends by exploring the roots of and early struggles over People's Park. Activists established People's Park (and baptized it in riot) as what they hoped would be a small unalienated space within ...
... People's Park movement, and so the chapter ends by exploring the roots of and early struggles over People's Park. Activists established People's Park (and baptized it in riot) as what they hoped would be a small unalienated space within ...
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... people's rights to public space “have no regular experience of neighbor- hood life as it must be endured by low-income city dwellers” (quoted in Will 1995). Neither Zinsmeister nor Will provide any evidence for this allegation. 5. The ...
... people's rights to public space “have no regular experience of neighbor- hood life as it must be endured by low-income city dwellers” (quoted in Will 1995). Neither Zinsmeister nor Will provide any evidence for this allegation. 5. The ...
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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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