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 8
... issues of home- lessness , public space , and rights in the contemporary city . Chapter 5 returns us , also , to issues of law and its role in affecting social and polit- ical exclusion by examining the roots and consequences of the ...
... issues of home- lessness , public space , and rights in the contemporary city . Chapter 5 returns us , also , to issues of law and its role in affecting social and polit- ical exclusion by examining the roots and consequences of the ...
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... had several years earlier already declared unconstitu- tional ) .7 The desire to control the streets and other public spaces of the city is not limited to issues concerning homeless people. “Our own 16 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
... had several years earlier already declared unconstitu- tional ) .7 The desire to control the streets and other public spaces of the city is not limited to issues concerning homeless people. “Our own 16 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
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... issues here that are critical to the development of the argument about public space and social justice that I will make in this book. The first is Lefebvre's insistence on a right to the city. Lefebvre was deeply attached to the rural ...
... issues here that are critical to the development of the argument about public space and social justice that I will make in this book. The first is Lefebvre's insistence on a right to the city. Lefebvre was deeply attached to the rural ...
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... 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 of the city, the terms of access to the public realm, and ...
... 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 of the city, the terms of access to the public realm, and ...
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... issue is particularly important in a world where some members of society are not covered by any property right (Waldron 1991) and so must find a way to inhabit the city despite the exclusivity of property—either that, or they must find ...
... issue is particularly important in a world where some members of society are not covered by any property right (Waldron 1991) and so must find a way to inhabit the city despite the exclusivity of property—either that, or they must find ...
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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