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 9
... struggling for, no matter how absolutely central they may be in the current political-economic climate where the ... Struggle for social justice in the city—for the right to the city—must therefore seek to establish a different kind ...
... struggling for, no matter how absolutely central they may be in the current political-economic climate where the ... Struggle for social justice in the city—for the right to the city—must therefore seek to establish a different kind ...
Page 10
... struggle to remake the city in a more open and progressive light . Remaking the city in an image of openness and justice in the wake of September 11 will be harder than ever . But it is also more necessary than ever . One of the common ...
... struggle to remake the city in a more open and progressive light . Remaking the city in an image of openness and justice in the wake of September 11 will be harder than ever . But it is also more necessary than ever . One of the common ...
Page 11
... struggles over public space, have held. If any of the events, trends, and struggles I have identified in this book have value, my hope is that it will be in pointing us both to the degree to which public space is always an achievement ...
... struggles over public space, have held. If any of the events, trends, and struggles I have identified in this book have value, my hope is that it will be in pointing us both to the degree to which public space is always an achievement ...
Page 13
... to hold an as- sembly in support of the right to vote. For Arnold, the Hyde Park dem- onstrators were “a symptom of the general anarchy” (Williams 1997 [1980], 6) rather than people struggling for their rights—their right 13.
... to hold an as- sembly in support of the right to vote. For Arnold, the Hyde Park dem- onstrators were “a symptom of the general anarchy” (Williams 1997 [1980], 6) rather than people struggling for their rights—their right 13.
Page 14
... struggling for their rights—their right to assemble, their right to speak, their right to vote. A Hyde Park “rioter,” according to Arnold, “is just asserting his personal liberty a little, going where he likes, assembling where he likes ...
... struggling for their rights—their right to assemble, their right to speak, their right to vote. A Hyde Park “rioter,” according to Arnold, “is just asserting his personal liberty a little, going where he likes, assembling where he likes ...
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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