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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... argument by Raymond Wil- liams about Matthew Arnold's reactions to the Hyde Park riots of 1866, I examine some recent statements by commentators that Williams would have called “little Arnolds”—those who see order as properly trumping ...
... argument by Raymond Wil- liams about Matthew Arnold's reactions to the Hyde Park riots of 1866, I examine some recent statements by commentators that Williams would have called “little Arnolds”—those who see order as properly trumping ...
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... argument that we have reached the " end of public space " in the contemporary city and find that that argument is overly simplistic , since it assumes that public space already simply existed ( rather than was socially produced through ...
... argument that we have reached the " end of public space " in the contemporary city and find that that argument is overly simplistic , since it assumes that public space already simply existed ( rather than was socially produced through ...
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... arguing, at best, for some awfully paltry rights—such as the right to sleep on the sidewalk, the right to beg, and the right to urinate in an alleyway. These are hard rights to either get ex- cited about winning, or in fact to continue ...
... arguing, at best, for some awfully paltry rights—such as the right to sleep on the sidewalk, the right to beg, and the right to urinate in an alleyway. These are hard rights to either get ex- cited about winning, or in fact to continue ...
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... argument . And so , in the Conclusion , I do suggest that certain forms of normative conceptualiza- tion of the city ... arguing for security and order over openness and the messy risks of street politics will find further reasons and ...
... argument . And so , in the Conclusion , I do suggest that certain forms of normative conceptualiza- tion of the city ... arguing for security and order over openness and the messy risks of street politics will find further reasons and ...
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... argument I make about rights in Chapter 1 was first laid out in Mitchell (1997a); the remainder of the chapter is new. 4. Chapter 2 is a significantly revised and updated version of Mitchell (1996b). 5. This chapter is a revised version ...
... argument I make about rights in Chapter 1 was first laid out in Mitchell (1997a); the remainder of the chapter is new. 4. Chapter 2 is a significantly revised and updated version of Mitchell (1996b). 5. This chapter is a revised version ...
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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