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
... simply existed ( rather than was socially produced through struggle ) . It is also overly simplistic in that it does not necessarily ap- preciate how new kinds of spaces have developed , creating new oppor- tunities for publicity . One ...
... simply existed ( rather than was socially produced through struggle ) . It is also overly simplistic in that it does not necessarily ap- preciate how new kinds of spaces have developed , creating new oppor- tunities for publicity . One ...
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... simply to survive. My main point in this chapter is that the new spate of anti-homeless laws and other “quality of life” initiatives in the contemporary city rely on fear as a driving force and thus tend toward not only the sort of ...
... simply to survive. My main point in this chapter is that the new spate of anti-homeless laws and other “quality of life” initiatives in the contemporary city rely on fear as a driving force and thus tend toward not only the sort of ...
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... simply the result of normative argument , even though any politics of the street , as I hope this volume makes clear , is always mediated through normative argument . And so , in the Conclusion , I do suggest that certain forms of ...
... simply the result of normative argument , even though any politics of the street , as I hope this volume makes clear , is always mediated through normative argument . And so , in the Conclusion , I do suggest that certain forms of ...
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... simply to live.3 As Williams (1997 [1980], 8) rightly proclaims: “it will always be necessary to go again to Hyde Park.” But, just as it is always necessary “to go again to Hyde Park”—for people to take control of public space in ...
... simply to live.3 As Williams (1997 [1980], 8) rightly proclaims: “it will always be necessary to go again to Hyde Park.” But, just as it is always necessary “to go again to Hyde Park”—for people to take control of public space in ...
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... simply commonsense. Those who work to pro- mote the rights of homeless people to use public space (as a refuge, as a place to sleep, as a stopping point, as a place of community and convivi- ality) are nothing more than “gladiators of ...
... simply commonsense. Those who work to pro- mote the rights of homeless people to use public space (as a refuge, as a place to sleep, as a stopping point, as a place of community and convivi- ality) are nothing more than “gladiators of ...
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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