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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... representation . ” A “ logic of representation ” cen- ters on the right of groups and individuals to make their desires and needs known, to represent themselves to others and to the 32 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
... representation . ” A “ logic of representation ” cen- ters on the right of groups and individuals to make their desires and needs known, to represent themselves to others and to the 32 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
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... representation. Yet, as with any other right, such a right cannot be guaranteed (“accepted”) in the abstract—rather, it is something al- ways to struggle toward. In this struggle, the development—or often the radical claiming—of a space ...
... representation. Yet, as with any other right, such a right cannot be guaranteed (“accepted”) in the abstract—rather, it is something al- ways to struggle toward. In this struggle, the development—or often the radical claiming—of a space ...
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... representation. In a world defined by private property, then, public space (as the space for representation) takes on exceptional importance. At the level of basic needs, as Waldron (1991) argues, in a society where all prop- erty is ...
... representation. In a world defined by private property, then, public space (as the space for representation) takes on exceptional importance. At the level of basic needs, as Waldron (1991) argues, in a society where all prop- erty is ...
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... representation. Representation both demands space and creates space. But it rarely does so under conditions of its own choosing. And so here the desires of other groups, other individuals, other classes, together with the violent power ...
... representation. Representation both demands space and creates space. But it rarely does so under conditions of its own choosing. And so here the desires of other groups, other individuals, other classes, together with the violent power ...
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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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