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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... Public Space?: People's Park, the Public, and the Right to the City Struggling over Public Space: The Volleyball ... Sphere 181 Chapter 6 118 161 Landscape or Public Space? 184 Conclusion 190 No Right to the City: Anti-Homeless Campaigns ...
... Public Space?: People's Park, the Public, and the Right to the City Struggling over Public Space: The Volleyball ... Sphere 181 Chapter 6 118 161 Landscape or Public Space? 184 Conclusion 190 No Right to the City: Anti-Homeless Campaigns ...
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... public space noted above in the contrast between the vision of public space advanced by " security experts " and ... sphere and a rather shriveled notion of rights , a notion that radical workers in the first half of the century — like those ...
... public space noted above in the contrast between the vision of public space advanced by " security experts " and ... sphere and a rather shriveled notion of rights , a notion that radical workers in the first half of the century — like those ...
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... public sphere. I do not find this kind of public sphere to be very attractive. Indeed, to me it speaks of a highly sanitized city and a fully deracinated politics—a politics that elevates the impor- tance of aesthetics over the needs of ...
... public sphere. I do not find this kind of public sphere to be very attractive. Indeed, to me it speaks of a highly sanitized city and a fully deracinated politics—a politics that elevates the impor- tance of aesthetics over the needs of ...
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Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space Don Mitchell. and shelter right now , and demanding those needs be ... sphere of autonomy stripped from any social context and counter- poses to it a sphere of social life stripped of any ...
Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space Don Mitchell. and shelter right now , and demanding those needs be ... sphere of autonomy stripped from any social context and counter- poses to it a sphere of social life stripped of any ...
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... public sphere " and drawing on a range of feminist arguments , Young ( 1990 , 97 ) notes that the “ ideal of impartial moral reason " ( which stands behind much rights talk ) " corre- sponds to the Enlightenment ideal of the public realm ...
... public sphere " and drawing on a range of feminist arguments , Young ( 1990 , 97 ) notes that the “ ideal of impartial moral reason " ( which stands behind much rights talk ) " corre- sponds to the Enlightenment ideal of the public realm ...
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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