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 viii
... Contemporary City 137 The End of Public Space? 134 142 The Necessity of Material Public Spaces 147 Conclusion: The End of People's Park as a Public Space? Coda 152 151 The Annihilation of Space by Law: Anti-Homeless Laws and the ...
... Contemporary City 137 The End of Public Space? 134 142 The Necessity of Material Public Spaces 147 Conclusion: The End of People's Park as a Public Space? Coda 152 151 The Annihilation of Space by Law: Anti-Homeless Laws and the ...
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... contemporary world , and thus the limits on what sorts of “ publics ” can be formed . I assess the argument that we have reached the " end of public space " in the contemporary city and find that that argument is overly simplistic ...
... contemporary world , and thus the limits on what sorts of “ publics ” can be formed . I assess the argument that we have reached the " end of public space " in the contemporary city and find that that argument is overly simplistic ...
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... contemporary city rely on fear as a driving force and thus tend toward not only the sort of security state that the New York experts outline but also the wholesale elimina- tion of a class of people who have nowhere else to be but in ...
... contemporary city rely on fear as a driving force and thus tend toward not only the sort of security state that the New York experts outline but also the wholesale elimina- tion of a class of people who have nowhere else to be but in ...
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... contemporary American city. Raymond Williams (1997 [1980], 3–5) reminds us, for example, that Matthew Arnold's (1993) famous declaration in Culture and Anar- chy—that culture represents (or ought to represent) “the best knowl- edge and ...
... contemporary American city. Raymond Williams (1997 [1980], 3–5) reminds us, for example, that Matthew Arnold's (1993) famous declaration in Culture and Anar- chy—that culture represents (or ought to represent) “the best knowl- edge and ...
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... contemporary United States, these “little Arnolds” have multiplied most rapidly around the perceived disordering of city streets that has come with the persistent growth of homelessness, with the growing numbers of the un- and ...
... contemporary United States, these “little Arnolds” have multiplied most rapidly around the perceived disordering of city streets that has come with the persistent growth of homelessness, with the growing numbers of the un- and ...
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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