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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... struggle — that flares up , in varying forms , throughout the course of the 20th century ( and in fact earlier too ) : as antiwar activists take to the streets ; as labor activists seek to make the space necessary to press their claims ...
... struggle — that flares up , in varying forms , throughout the course of the 20th century ( and in fact earlier too ) : as antiwar activists take to the streets ; as labor activists seek to make the space necessary to press their claims ...
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... struggle , and then , after the fact , guaranteed ( to some extent ) in law . If Vidler's ( 2001 , 4 : 6 ) vision of the city - especially his call to " search for design alternatives that retain the dense and vital mix of uses critical ...
... struggle , and then , after the fact , guaranteed ( to some extent ) in law . If Vidler's ( 2001 , 4 : 6 ) vision of the city - especially his call to " search for design alternatives that retain the dense and vital mix of uses critical ...
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... struggles over who has access to public space, and who is excluded, define the “right to the city”—and why a right to the city must be at the heart of any vision of a progressive, democratic, and just world. Part of my argument is that ...
... struggles over who has access to public space, and who is excluded, define the “right to the city”—and why a right to the city must be at the heart of any vision of a progressive, democratic, and just world. Part of my argument is that ...
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... struggles and court cases all involved the right to speak— or what we so often carelessly call free speech—in public spaces, and they involved a rather torturous, but still exceedingly important, dis- tinction the Supreme Court has made ...
... struggles and court cases all involved the right to speak— or what we so often carelessly call free speech—in public spaces, and they involved a rather torturous, but still exceedingly important, dis- tinction the Supreme Court has made ...
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... 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 of those kinds of public space , of course , is the space ...
... 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 of those kinds of public space , of course , is the space ...
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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