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
... Importance of Public Space in Democratic Societies 130 The Position of the Homeless in Public Space and as Part of the Public Public Space in the Contemporary City 137 The End of Public Space? 134 142 The Necessity of Material Public ...
... Importance of Public Space in Democratic Societies 130 The Position of the Homeless in Public Space and as Part of the Public Public Space in the Contemporary City 137 The End of Public Space? 134 142 The Necessity of Material Public ...
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... important public spaces and along “vulnerable” streets, the installation of more “bomb-proof” windows, trash cans, and so forth. Policing too, they agreed, should be stepped up. Some argued for the deployment of armies of bomb-sniffing ...
... important public spaces and along “vulnerable” streets, the installation of more “bomb-proof” windows, trash cans, and so forth. Policing too, they agreed, should be stepped up. Some argued for the deployment of armies of bomb-sniffing ...
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... importance of city centers for the public life of societies,” because “real community, as evident over the last week [of spontaneous public gatherings and memorials], is bred in cities more strongly than suburbs” (Vidler 2001, 4:6) ...
... importance of city centers for the public life of societies,” because “real community, as evident over the last week [of spontaneous public gatherings and memorials], is bred in cities more strongly than suburbs” (Vidler 2001, 4:6) ...
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... important that the idea of public space , and its relations to urban community be sustained " ( Vidler 2001 , 4 : 6 ) . This book is about that “ idea ” —and , even more importantly , the practice of public space in American cities ...
... important that the idea of public space , and its relations to urban community be sustained " ( Vidler 2001 , 4 : 6 ) . This book is about that “ idea ” —and , even more importantly , the practice of public space in American cities ...
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... important, dis- tinction the Supreme Court has made between “pure speech,” “expres- sive conduct,” and behavior. This distinction is important because it helps limit rather than open up what can be said and done in public space and ...
... important, dis- tinction the Supreme Court has made between “pure speech,” “expres- sive conduct,” and behavior. This distinction is important because it helps limit rather than open up what can be said and done in public space 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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