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The right to the city : social justice and the fight for public space / Don Mitchell
Bib ID 893598
Format BookBook
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Mitchell, Don, 1961-
 
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Description New York : Guilford Press, c2003 
viii, 270 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 
ISBN 1572308478 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
Summary

"Presented are a series of linked cases that explore the judicial response to public demonstrations by early twentieth-century workers, and comparable legal issues surrounding anti-abortion protests today; the Free Speech Movement and the history of People's Park in Berkeley; and the plight of homeless people facing new laws against their presence in urban streets. The central focus is how political dissent gains meaning and momentum - and is regulated and policed - in the real, physical spaces of the city."--BOOK JACKET.

Full contents
  • Introduction: The Fight for Public Space: What Has Changed?
  • Ch. 1. To Go Again to Hyde Park: Public Space, Rights, and Social Justice
  • Ch. 2. Making Dissent Safe for Democracy: Violence, Order, and the Legal Geography of Public Space
  • Ch. 3. From Free Speech to People's Park: Locational Conflict and the Right to the City
  • Ch. 4. The End of Public Space?: People's Park, the Public, and the Right to the City
  • Ch. 5. The Annihilation of Space by Law: Anti-Homeless Laws and the Shrinking Landscape of Rights
  • Ch. 6. No Right to the City: Anti-Homeless Campaigns, Public Space Zoning, and the Problem of Necessity
  • Conclusion: The Illusion and Necessity of Order: Toward a Just City.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-262) and index.

Subjects Public spaces - United States.  |  Social justice - United States.  |  Protest movements - United States.  |  Homeless persons - Civil rights - United States.  |  Urban geography - United States.

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