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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... specific places at critical times—the streets of San Diego in 1912 as the Industrial Workers of the World were on the march, Peo- ple's Park in Berkeley, California, in 1969 as an imagined alternative to alienated bureaucratic society ...
... specific places at critical times—the streets of San Diego in 1912 as the Industrial Workers of the World were on the march, Peo- ple's Park in Berkeley, California, in 1969 as an imagined alternative to alienated bureaucratic society ...
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... specific spaces (and indeed over the content of that control). Chapter 3 exam- ines this episode and some of its consequences.5 The Berkeley Free Speech Movement did not inaugurate campus activism in the 1960s (its roots lie more in the ...
... specific spaces (and indeed over the content of that control). Chapter 3 exam- ines this episode and some of its consequences.5 The Berkeley Free Speech Movement did not inaugurate campus activism in the 1960s (its roots lie more in the ...
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... specific, and highly constricted, 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 ...
... specific, and highly constricted, 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 ...
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... specific complaints of Parisian students fed up with being molded into uncomplaining “organizational men” (and women), radi- cal social transformation really seemed possible. And for Lefebvre, this implied the development (finally) of a ...
... specific complaints of Parisian students fed up with being molded into uncomplaining “organizational men” (and women), radi- cal social transformation really seemed possible. And for Lefebvre, this implied the development (finally) of a ...
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... specific social situations , to the degree that they are and are not backed by the violence and the power of the state , and to the degree that they protect the interests of some at the expense of others ( despite and because of the ...
... specific social situations , to the degree that they are and are not backed by the violence and the power of the state , and to the degree that they protect the interests of some at the expense of others ( despite and because of 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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