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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... Civil rights—United States. 5. Urban geography—United States. I. Title. HT123 .M5656 2003 307.76′0973—dc21 2002155032 Guilford Press is a registered trademark of Guilford Publications, Inc. Acknowledgments Prompted by my own political ...
... Civil rights—United States. 5. Urban geography—United States. I. Title. HT123 .M5656 2003 307.76′0973—dc21 2002155032 Guilford Press is a registered trademark of Guilford Publications, Inc. Acknowledgments Prompted by my own political ...
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... civil liberties . As the Times noted , even the American Civil Lib- erties Union was refraining from its usually automatic denunciations of such talk ( Barstow , 2001 ) . But what frequently gets lost in such discus- sions is the degree ...
... civil liberties . As the Times noted , even the American Civil Lib- erties Union was refraining from its usually automatic denunciations of such talk ( Barstow , 2001 ) . But what frequently gets lost in such discus- sions is the degree ...
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... civil rights movement), but it did solidify certain aspects of it, including the implementation of a critique not only of pol- itics and justice in America (and beyond), but a critique of modern alienation—a critique that blossomed most ...
... civil rights movement), but it did solidify certain aspects of it, including the implementation of a critique not only of pol- itics and justice in America (and beyond), but a critique of modern alienation—a critique that blossomed most ...
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... civil- ity” in public space is simply commonsense. Those who work to pro- mote the rights of homeless people to use public space (as a refuge, as a place to sleep, as a stopping point, as a place of community and convivi- ality) are ...
... civil- ity” in public space is simply commonsense. Those who work to pro- mote the rights of homeless people to use public space (as a refuge, as a place to sleep, as a stopping point, as a place of community and convivi- ality) are ...
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... civil rights might once have had a place in American society ( it “ helped end American apart- heid " ) , hard - won civil rights are now " used to try to trump many legiti- mate community interests , and to elevate all kinds of ...
... civil rights might once have had a place in American society ( it “ helped end American apart- heid " ) , hard - won civil rights are now " used to try to trump many legiti- mate community interests , and to elevate all kinds of ...
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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