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 11
... riots in the first place. 7. Chapter 5 is a slightly revised version of Mitchell (1997b). 8. While most of the analysis in this chapter is new, the examination of “broken windows” and public space zoning revise an argument I put ...
... riots in the first place. 7. Chapter 5 is a slightly revised version of Mitchell (1997b). 8. While most of the analysis in this chapter is new, the examination of “broken windows” and public space zoning revise an argument I put ...
Page 14
... riots, or mass dem- onstrations that draw out these “little Arnolds.” In the contemporary United States, these “little Arnolds” have multiplied most rapidly around the perceived disordering of city streets that has come with the ...
... riots, or mass dem- onstrations that draw out these “little Arnolds.” In the contemporary United States, these “little Arnolds” have multiplied most rapidly around the perceived disordering of city streets that has come with the ...
Page 20
... riots of 1967, and working both among and for community activ- ists, Bunge focused on the urban life spaces of poor children, particu- larly African American children. His Fitzgerald: The Geography of a Revolution (1971) is certainly a ...
... riots of 1967, and working both among and for community activ- ists, Bunge focused on the urban life spaces of poor children, particu- larly African American children. His Fitzgerald: The Geography of a Revolution (1971) is certainly a ...
Page 35
... riot police wielding tear gas, corporate lawyers wielding writs and subpoenas, and “rent-a-cops” wielding revolvers (and licensed to use them). So too is “Hyde Park” reclaimed by the almost inevitable attrition en- demic to any militant ...
... riot police wielding tear gas, corporate lawyers wielding writs and subpoenas, and “rent-a-cops” wielding revolvers (and licensed to use them). So too is “Hyde Park” reclaimed by the almost inevitable attrition en- demic to any militant ...
Page 37
... riot police stormed the stage, sparking a riot. A month and a half later, some 4,000 New Yorkers gathered to march through Manhattan in memory of the brutally murdered gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard. Police reacted by ...
... riot police stormed the stage, sparking a riot. A month and a half later, some 4,000 New Yorkers gathered to march through Manhattan in memory of the brutally murdered gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard. Police reacted by ...
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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