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The right to the city : social justice and the fight for public space

"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2003
Guilford Press, New York, ©2003
viii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781572308473, 1572308478
51203456
Introduction. The Fight for Public Space: What Has Changed?Chapter 1. To Go Again to Hyde Park: Public Space, Rights, and Social JusticeChapter 2. Making Dissent Safe for Democracy: Violence, Order, and the Legal Geography of Public SpaceChapter 3. From Free Speech to People's Park: Locational Conflict and the Right tothe CityChapter 4. The End of Public Space?: People's Park, the Public, and the Right to the CityChapter 5. The Annihilation of Space by Law: Anti-Homeless Laws and theShrinking Landscape of RightsChapter 6. No Right to the City: Anti-Homeless Campaigns, Public Space Zoning,and the Problem of NecessityConclusion. The Illusion and Necessity of Order: Toward a Just CityPostscript (2014): Now What Has Changed?ReferencesIndex