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 6
... Arnold's reactions to the Hyde Park riots of 1866, I examine some recent statements by commentators that Williams would have called “little Arnolds”—those who see order as properly trumping rights in urban space in nearly all instances ...
... Arnold's reactions to the Hyde Park riots of 1866, I examine some recent statements by commentators that Williams would have called “little Arnolds”—those who see order as properly trumping rights in urban space in nearly all instances ...
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... Arnold imitators. “Our own little Arnolds,” Williams (1997 [1980], 8) called them, who claim they are promoting “excellence and humane values on the one hand; discipline and where necessary repres- sion on the other.” It is not just ...
... Arnold imitators. “Our own little Arnolds,” Williams (1997 [1980], 8) called them, who claim they are promoting “excellence and humane values on the one hand; discipline and where necessary repres- sion on the other.” It is not just ...
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... little Arnolds” is the nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and regular television talk-show guest George Will ... Arnold, our era's defender of the sweetness and light that is his version of culture and civility, he has argued ...
... little Arnolds” is the nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and regular television talk-show guest George Will ... Arnold, our era's defender of the sweetness and light that is his version of culture and civility, he has argued ...
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... little Arnolds” have wider targets. As Mayor Giuliani has made clear, the de- sire to counteract “anarchy” with repression runs the gamut of public space uses from rallies and demonstrations (as with the police depart- ment's violent ...
... little Arnolds” have wider targets. As Mayor Giuliani has made clear, the de- sire to counteract “anarchy” with repression runs the gamut of public space uses from rallies and demonstrations (as with the police depart- ment's violent ...
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... little Arnolds,” with their overweaning concern for order and “civilization,” with their defenses of the geography of privilege, begin to seem paltry and mean-spirited at best. The cry and the demand for the right to the city is the ...
... little Arnolds,” with their overweaning concern for order and “civilization,” with their defenses of the geography of privilege, begin to seem paltry and mean-spirited at best. The cry and the demand for the right to the city is 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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