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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... streets by the Industrial Workers of the World around 1910, through a series of celebrated, and rather reactionary, cases concerning “subversive” protesters during World War I and labor picketers in the 1920s and 1930s, and to the ...
... streets by the Industrial Workers of the World around 1910, through a series of celebrated, and rather reactionary, cases concerning “subversive” protesters during World War I and labor picketers in the 1920s and 1930s, and to the ...
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... street , as I hope this volume makes clear , is always mediated through normative argument . And so , in the ... streets again . But that too is just a deepening of trends , as the increasingly violent response to protesters in ...
... street , as I hope this volume makes clear , is always mediated through normative argument . And so , in the ... streets again . But that too is just a deepening of trends , as the increasingly violent response to protesters in ...
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... the perceived disordering of city streets that has come with the persistent growth of homelessness, with the growing numbers of the un- and underemployed, the mentally ill, and the drug-addicted who 14 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
... the perceived disordering of city streets that has come with the persistent growth of homelessness, with the growing numbers of the un- and underemployed, the mentally ill, and the drug-addicted who 14 THE RIGHT TO THE CITY.
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... streets” (Will 1987). The need for a certain kind of collec- tive order outweighs whatever putative right a homeless person might have to find a space for living in the public spaces of the city. The right for the housed residents and ...
... streets” (Will 1987). The need for a certain kind of collec- tive order outweighs whatever putative right a homeless person might have to find a space for living in the public spaces of the city. The right for the housed residents and ...
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... streets , Robert Tier ( 1993 , 287 ) of the American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities echoes him ( and Matthew Arnold ) by pointing out that what is at stake is actually not rights at all , but a question of choices . He argues ...
... streets , Robert Tier ( 1993 , 287 ) of the American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities echoes him ( and Matthew Arnold ) by pointing out that what is at stake is actually not rights at all , but a question of choices . He argues ...
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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