The right to the city social justice and the fight for public space
In the wake of recent terrorist attacks, 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. Presented are a series of linked cases that explore the judicial response to public demonstrations by early twentieth-century
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9781462509003, 9781283925181, 9781462509348, 9781462505876, 1462509002, 1283925184, 1462509347, 1462505872
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Cover; Front Matter; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: The Fight for Public Space; 1: To Go Again to Hyde Park; Public Space and the Right to the City; 2: Making Dissent Safe for Democracy; Bubble Laws, Abortion Rights, and the Legal Content of Public Space; Regulating Public Space; Violence, Order, and the Contradictions of Public Space; Disorder, Violence, and the Legal Construction of Public Space before World War I; Making Dissent Safe for Democracy; Regulating Public Forums; Conclusion; 3: From Free Speech to People's Park Nonconformists, Anarchists, and CommunistsFrom Free Speech to Counterculture; 4: The End of Public Space; Struggling Over Public Space; The Dialectic of Public Space; The Importance of Public Space in Democratic Societies; The Position of the Homeless in Public Space and as Part of the Public; Public Space in the Contemporary City; The End of Public Space; The Necessity of Material Public Spaces; Conclusion; Coda; 5: The Annihilation of Space by Law; The Annihilating Economy; The Annihilation of People by Law; The Problem of Regulation; Citizenship in the Spaces of the City Landscape or Public SpaceConclusion; 6: No Right to the City; "Broken Windows""; Santa Ana's Anti-Camping Ordinance and the Problem of Necessity; Anti-Homeless Campaigns and the Content of Contemporary Urban Justice; Public Space Zoning; Conclusion; Conclusion: The Illusion and Necessity of Order; Spaces of Justice; References; Index; About the Author
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