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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 48
Page 3
... create “a world hardly worth living in and would inhibit the very contact through density that cities en- courage” (Vidler 2001, 4:6). He goes on to argue that “urban public space has suffered major onslaughts in the last 20 years, from ...
... create “a world hardly worth living in and would inhibit the very contact through density that cities en- courage” (Vidler 2001, 4:6). He goes on to argue that “urban public space has suffered major onslaughts in the last 20 years, from ...
Page 8
... creating new oppor- tunities for publicity . One of those kinds of public space , of course , is the space of the electronic media . What I found most interesting as I revised my argument for this volume was the degree to which I ...
... creating new oppor- tunities for publicity . One of those kinds of public space , of course , is the space of the electronic media . What I found most interesting as I revised my argument for this volume was the degree to which I ...
Page 23
... creates an ideological barrier to the extension of positive rights in our culture . " Yet , this is not just a matter of progressives needing to do a better job of promoting positive rights , for , as already noted , Tushnet argues that ...
... creates an ideological barrier to the extension of positive rights in our culture . " Yet , this is not just a matter of progressives needing to do a better job of promoting positive rights , for , as already noted , Tushnet argues that ...
Page 24
... created " one of the great empires in world history [ where ] life in the metropolis goes on as well as it does only because the metropolis exploits the provinces . ” Un- der such conditions ( conditions that we now have grown ...
... created " one of the great empires in world history [ where ] life in the metropolis goes on as well as it does only because the metropolis exploits the provinces . ” Un- der such conditions ( conditions that we now have grown ...
Page 25
... create a world in which the immiserization of the many so as to enrich the very few is packaged as inherently just (and liberatory); then those who seek to create a better world have few more powerful tools than precisely the language ...
... create a world in which the immiserization of the many so as to enrich the very few is packaged as inherently just (and liberatory); then those who seek to create a better world have few more powerful tools than precisely the language ...
Contents
1 | |
13 | |
42 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space Don Mitchell Limited preview - 2003 |
The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space Don Mitchell No preview available - 2003 |
Common terms and phrases
abortion action activists administration American cities American Steel Foundries anti-camping anti-homeless laws argues argument arrested behavior Berkeley campus Blomley broken windows California capital Center Chapter claim clinics context create democracy democratic discourse disorder dissent downtown economic Ellickson force Free Speech Movement free speech zones Frohwerk geography globalization groups Harvey homeless housing Hyde Park ideology important issues Kerr labor landscape Lefebvre little Arnolds live Madsen Matthew Arnold ment Mitchell norms ordinances organizing panhandling People’s Park picketing police political activity protest public forum doctrine public space public sphere radical regulation representation restrictions riots San Francisco Santa Ana Sather Gate Scalia Seattle seek sidewalks simply skid row sleep social justice society South Campus area spatial Sproul Hall Sproul Plaza streets struggle Supreme Court Takahashi 1998 Telegraph Avenue tion transformation Tushnet utopia Vidler violence Waldron workers York zoning