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The Right to the City

Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
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In the wake of terrorist attacks in 2001, 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 20th-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 on how political dissent gains meaning and momentum and is regulated and policed in the real, physical spaces of the city.
Introduction. The Fight for Public Space: What Has Changed? Chapter 1. To Go Again to Hyde Park: Public Space, Rights, and Social Justice Chapter 2. Making Dissent Safe for Democracy: Violence, Order, and the Legal Geography of Public Space Chapter 3. From Free Speech to People's Park: Locational Conflict and the Right to the City Chapter 4. The End of Public Space?: People's Park, the Public, and the Right to the City Chapter 5. The Annihilation of Space by Law: Anti-Homeless Laws and the Shrinking Landscape of Rights Chapter 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 Postscript (2014): Now What Has Changed? References Index
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