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 18
... groups—had always to be struggled for. This is the second issue. The city is the place where difference lives. And finally, in the city, different people with different projects must necessarily struggle with one another over the shape ...
... groups—had always to be struggled for. This is the second issue. The city is the place where difference lives. And finally, in the city, different people with different projects must necessarily struggle with one another over the shape ...
Page 31
... groups ... are oppressed; [and] that structures of domination wrongfully pervade our society” and can be dismantled (Young 1990, 14). Young's argument, in short, is that distributive justice (given the above universal assumptions) is ...
... groups ... are oppressed; [and] that structures of domination wrongfully pervade our society” and can be dismantled (Young 1990, 14). Young's argument, in short, is that distributive justice (given the above universal assumptions) is ...
Page 32
... groups . Frameworks of rights , in other words , are crucial to the development of a social justice that moves beyond distri- bution and begins to recognize the struggle against oppression and in favor of autonomy ( 25 ) . However , the ...
... groups . Frameworks of rights , in other words , are crucial to the development of a social justice that moves beyond distri- bution and begins to recognize the struggle against oppression and in favor of autonomy ( 25 ) . However , the ...
Page 33
... groups and individuals can make themselves visible, is crucial. While it is no doubt true that the work of citizenship requires a multitude of spaces, from the most private to the most public, at the same time public spaces are decisive ...
... groups and individuals can make themselves visible, is crucial. While it is no doubt true that the work of citizenship requires a multitude of spaces, from the most private to the most public, at the same time public spaces are decisive ...
Page 35
... groups to represent themselves. And yet, as careful analyses of the community network movement in the United States (such as that by Michael Longan 2000) show, even the most well designed spaces for interaction (in this case the ...
... groups to represent themselves. And yet, as careful analyses of the community network movement in the United States (such as that by Michael Longan 2000) show, even the most well designed spaces for interaction (in this case the ...
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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