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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... housing in Detroit and Toronto and other North American cities was designed so as to be “anti-children.” High-rises, for example, had no space for play—at least no safe and decent space. Likewise what sufficed as public space in the ...
... housing in Detroit and Toronto and other North American cities was designed so as to be “anti-children.” High-rises, for example, had no space for play—at least no safe and decent space. Likewise what sufficed as public space in the ...
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... housing , for income redistri- bution , for worker power , against corporate colonization of every aspect of our lives , against racism , against sexism , and against the homophobia that rules everyday life . Yet , for all the strength ...
... housing , for income redistri- bution , for worker power , against corporate colonization of every aspect of our lives , against racism , against sexism , and against the homophobia that rules everyday life . Yet , for all the strength ...
Page 28
... housing and livelihood , American society no longer produced homelessness quite so efficiently — that is , if homelessness be- came , because of reduced numbers , no longer quite so pressing a matter in most cities ? How would the ...
... housing and livelihood , American society no longer produced homelessness quite so efficiently — that is , if homelessness be- came , because of reduced numbers , no longer quite so pressing a matter in most cities ? How would the ...
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... housing was available. 33. We will examine the degree to which such a world is being constructed in the United States in Chapters 5 and 6. 34. “Public sphere” is a complicated term in that it indicates public interaction at a range of ...
... housing was available. 33. We will examine the degree to which such a world is being constructed in the United States in Chapters 5 and 6. 34. “Public sphere” is a complicated term in that it indicates public interaction at a range of ...
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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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