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 24
... issues of cultural domination.19 Therefore , Rorty suggests that both economic and cultural injustice is better attacked with the " robust , practical , and concrete language " of " moral discourse " ( Rorty , 1996 , 16 ) .20 Like Rorty ...
... issues of cultural domination.19 Therefore , Rorty suggests that both economic and cultural injustice is better attacked with the " robust , practical , and concrete language " of " moral discourse " ( Rorty , 1996 , 16 ) .20 Like Rorty ...
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... multiple public spheres is an issue of planning, and that such planning is—or could be—sufficient to the promotion of political discourse. The planning and provision of public spaces will lead, 34 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
... multiple public spheres is an issue of planning, and that such planning is—or could be—sufficient to the promotion of political discourse. The planning and provision of public spaces will lead, 34 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
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... issues and specific needs. That is to say, political debate developed not because it could, but because it had to—and in the process often the least likely sites for polit- ical representations became the most important. That is to say ...
... issues and specific needs. That is to say, political debate developed not because it could, but because it had to—and in the process often the least likely sites for polit- ical representations became the most important. That is to say ...
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... issue is what kind of order, and protecting whose interests, is to be developed and advanced. Indeed, I will argue, es- pecially in the Conclusion, that “order” is as vitally necessary to the pro- gressive city as it is to the ...
... issue is what kind of order, and protecting whose interests, is to be developed and advanced. Indeed, I will argue, es- pecially in the Conclusion, that “order” is as vitally necessary to the pro- gressive city as it is to the ...
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... issues” (Tier 1998, 255n). 7. See note 3, above. 8. The “Million Youth March,” held in Harlem on September 5, 1998, was or- ganized by Khalil Muhammad, a leader of the New Black Panther Party and a former leader of the Nation of Islam ...
... issues” (Tier 1998, 255n). 7. See note 3, above. 8. The “Million Youth March,” held in Harlem on September 5, 1998, was or- ganized by Khalil Muhammad, a leader of the New Black Panther Party and a former leader of the Nation of Islam ...
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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