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 9
... sleep on the sidewalk, the right to beg, and the right to urinate in an alleyway. These are hard rights to either get ex- cited about winning, or in fact to continue struggling for, no matter how absolutely central they may be in the ...
... sleep on the sidewalk, the right to beg, and the right to urinate in an alleyway. These are hard rights to either get ex- cited about winning, or in fact to continue struggling for, no matter how absolutely central they may be in the ...
Page 15
... sleep, as a stopping point, as a place of community and convivi- ality) are nothing more than “gladiators of liberation”4 engaged in the “business” of “abstract compassion” (Will 1995, 7B). Over the course of the homelessness crisis ...
... sleep, as a stopping point, as a place of community and convivi- ality) are nothing more than “gladiators of liberation”4 engaged in the “business” of “abstract compassion” (Will 1995, 7B). Over the course of the homelessness crisis ...
Page 16
... sleep there , to assert the right to sleep and eat in the public place of one's choosing , and to beg in any way one pleases " ( emphasis added ) . The problem of homelessness , according to Tier , is not a lack of affordable housing or ...
... sleep there , to assert the right to sleep and eat in the public place of one's choosing , and to beg in any way one pleases " ( emphasis added ) . The problem of homelessness , according to Tier , is not a lack of affordable housing or ...
Page 19
... sleep, a place to urinate and defecate without asking someone else's permission, a place to relax, a place from which to venture forth. Simply guaranteeing the right to housing may not be sufficient to guaranteeing a right to the city ...
... sleep, a place to urinate and defecate without asking someone else's permission, a place to relax, a place from which to venture forth. Simply guaranteeing the right to housing may not be sufficient to guaranteeing a right to the city ...
Page 27
... sleep on the streets or urinate in an alley , it is even more appall- ing , given the current ruthless rate at which homelessness is produced , to argue that homeless people should not have that right . That is , to the degree that we ...
... sleep on the streets or urinate in an alley , it is even more appall- ing , given the current ruthless rate at which homelessness is produced , to argue that homeless people should not have that right . That is , to the degree that we ...
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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