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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... Protest movements—United States. 4. Homeless persons—Civil rights—United States. 5. Urban geography—United States. I. Title. HT123 .M5656 2003 307.76′0973—dc21 2002155032 Guilford Press is a registered trademark of Guilford Publications ...
... Protest movements—United States. 4. Homeless persons—Civil rights—United States. 5. Urban geography—United States. I. Title. HT123 .M5656 2003 307.76′0973—dc21 2002155032 Guilford Press is a registered trademark of Guilford Publications ...
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... protesting in front of city hall, marching in the streets, or rallying in parks and squares. The solution to the perceived ills of urban public spaces over the past generation has been a combination of environmental change, behavior ...
... protesting in front of city hall, marching in the streets, or rallying in parks and squares. The solution to the perceived ills of urban public spaces over the past generation has been a combination of environmental change, behavior ...
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... protests in public space have con- cerned anti-abortion protesters outside clinics and the homes of abor- tion providers. These cases draw on a long history of case law that in fact has more to do with controlling (and sometimes ...
... protests in public space have con- cerned anti-abortion protesters outside clinics and the homes of abor- tion providers. These cases draw on a long history of case law that in fact has more to do with controlling (and sometimes ...
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... protesters during World War I and labor picketers in the 1920s and 1930s, and to the eventual codification of what came to be known as “public forum doctrine” in the 1950s and 1960s. These struggles and court cases all involved the ...
... protesters during World War I and labor picketers in the 1920s and 1930s, and to the eventual codification of what came to be known as “public forum doctrine” in the 1950s and 1960s. These struggles and court cases all involved the ...
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... protest in the streets again . But that too is just a deepening of trends , as the increasingly violent response to protesters in Washington , Quebec , and Genoa during the first part of 2001 made clear . Finally , there are the trends ...
... protest in the streets again . But that too is just a deepening of trends , as the increasingly violent response to protesters in Washington , Quebec , and Genoa during the first part of 2001 made clear . Finally , there are the trends ...
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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