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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... sorts of proposals put forth by the panel of se- curity experts, Vidler insists, would create “a world hardly worth living in and would inhibit the very contact through density that cities en- courage” (Vidler 2001, 4:6). He goes on to ...
... sorts of proposals put forth by the panel of se- curity experts, Vidler insists, would create “a world hardly worth living in and would inhibit the very contact through density that cities en- courage” (Vidler 2001, 4:6). He goes on to ...
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... sort of city he promotes must necessarily retain some tolerance for risk and danger . It must take for granted that at least some level of " fear " will always be present in urban life . There is no way around that , as unattractive as ...
... sort of city he promotes must necessarily retain some tolerance for risk and danger . It must take for granted that at least some level of " fear " will always be present in urban life . There is no way around that , as unattractive as ...
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... than it does with the sorts of political dissent exercised by anti- abortion protesters. I trace this history from its origins in struggles over the right to speak on the streets by the Industrial 6 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
... than it does with the sorts of political dissent exercised by anti- abortion protesters. I trace this history from its origins in struggles over the right to speak on the streets by the Industrial 6 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
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... sorts of “ publics ” can be formed . I assess the argument that we have reached the " end of public space " in the contemporary city and find that that argument is overly simplistic , since it assumes that public space already simply ...
... sorts of “ publics ” can be formed . I assess the argument that we have reached the " end of public space " in the contemporary city and find that that argument is overly simplistic , since it assumes that public space already simply ...
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... sort 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 ...
... sort 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 ...
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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