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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... transform an economic sys- tem that requires high levels of structural unemployment to function , Tier ( 1993 , 291 ) argues that we need “ the protection of pedestrians from unwanted solicitations , harassments , and assault ...
... transform an economic sys- tem that requires high levels of structural unemployment to function , Tier ( 1993 , 291 ) argues that we need “ the protection of pedestrians from unwanted solicitations , harassments , and assault ...
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... transformed if the project of human emancipation was to be advanced. As the Situa- tionist Guy Debord (1994 [1967], 126) ... transformation really seemed possible. And for Lefebvre, this implied the development (finally) of a fully urban ...
... transformed if the project of human emancipation was to be advanced. As the Situa- tionist Guy Debord (1994 [1967], 126) ... transformation really seemed possible. And for Lefebvre, this implied the development (finally) of a fully urban ...
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... proven itself to be, many argued, not just easily corruptible by, but actively complicit in, the rise of fascism, the development of weapons of mass destruction , and the transformation of people To Go Again to Hyde Park 21.
... proven itself to be, many argued, not just easily corruptible by, but actively complicit in, the rise of fascism, the development of weapons of mass destruction , and the transformation of people To Go Again to Hyde Park 21.
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... transformation of people not into enlightened subjects but passive bearers of techno - bureaucratic rationality . Often labeled “ postmodernist , " especially after Lyotard's ( 1985 ) broadside against " metanarratives , " 14 such ...
... transformation of people not into enlightened subjects but passive bearers of techno - bureaucratic rationality . Often labeled “ postmodernist , " especially after Lyotard's ( 1985 ) broadside against " metanarratives , " 14 such ...
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... transformed discourse about class and eco- nomic power that crystallized in the anti - World Trade Organization ( WTO ) protests in Seattle at the end of 1999 , Richard Rorty ( 1996 , 15 ) asserts that the most serious problems facing ...
... transformed discourse about class and eco- nomic power that crystallized in the anti - World Trade Organization ( WTO ) protests in Seattle at the end of 1999 , Richard Rorty ( 1996 , 15 ) asserts that the most serious problems facing ...
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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