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 12
... for the park. The competition itself, and the sorts of plans it called forth, is deeply indicative of current corporate public space ideology. To Go Again to Hyde Park Public Space, Rights, and 12 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
... for the park. The competition itself, and the sorts of plans it called forth, is deeply indicative of current corporate public space ideology. To Go Again to Hyde Park Public Space, Rights, and 12 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
Page 23
... 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 fo- cusing ...
... 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 fo- cusing ...
Page 29
... ideological superstructures, institutions or political ap- paratuses.” The “cry and demand” for rights is a means for producing the right to the city—it is “that critique of human geography” Debord called for. Space , Rights , and the ...
... ideological superstructures, institutions or political ap- paratuses.” The “cry and demand” for rights is a means for producing the right to the city—it is “that critique of human geography” Debord called for. Space , Rights , and the ...
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... ideological move that it is . It shows that in fact the question is not one of order versus disorder but rather one of what sort of order is to be developed and advanced - a progressive one or a repressive and oppressive one . The ...
... ideological move that it is . It shows that in fact the question is not one of order versus disorder but rather one of what sort of order is to be developed and advanced - a progressive one or a repressive and oppressive one . The ...
Page 37
... ideological commitment to private property and a visceral dislike of popu- list movements that had been successful at implementing what he desired to implement through more authoritarian means) was that he was leading an assault against ...
... ideological commitment to private property and a visceral dislike of popu- list movements that had been successful at implementing what he desired to implement through more authoritarian means) was that he was leading an assault against ...
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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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 |
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