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 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.
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"In this wide-ranging tour de force, Don Mitchell offers us a rich and geographically grounded exploration of struggles over urban public space. This is scholarship in the best sense of the word: politically engaged, theoretically informed, and powerfully argued. Urban public space emerges not only as a site of brutal and often violent control, but also as a space of liberation and hope. Mitchell shows us that public spaces--the streets and parks of the everyday--matter, and are worth fighting for."--Nicholas K. Blomley, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
"Don Mitchell packs a wallop like the pamphleteering Marx. Polemical, stirring, and angry, this book is required reading for anyone who cares about the fate of our cities and our fragile democracy."--Andy Merrifield, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
"This provocative work asserts that the right to public space is crucial to advancing the cause of justice. Complex yet comprehensible, the book balances the ideas of legal scholars, cultural theorists, and social scientists with Mitchell's singular voice based on his extensive thinking and research in the area. Mitchell thoughtfully argues that the struggle for rights actually produces public space and thus insists that rights be taken seriously, especially by leftist scholars, as they are central to counteracting exclusionary practices and the pervasive power of the state. This book is especially appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on the city."--Sallie A. Marston, Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona
"Don Mitchell packs a wallop like the pamphleteering Marx. Polemical, stirring, and angry, this book is required reading for anyone who cares about the fate of our cities and our fragile democracy."--Andy Merrifield, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
"This provocative work asserts that the right to public space is crucial to advancing the cause of justice. Complex yet comprehensible, the book balances the ideas of legal scholars, cultural theorists, and social scientists with Mitchell's singular voice based on his extensive thinking and research in the area. Mitchell thoughtfully argues that the struggle for rights actually produces public space and thus insists that rights be taken seriously, especially by leftist scholars, as they are central to counteracting exclusionary practices and the pervasive power of the state. This book is especially appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on the city."--Sallie A. Marston, Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona
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Don Mitchell is a Professor of Geography in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. After receiving his doctorate in geography from Rutgers University in 1992, he taught at the University of Colorado before moving to Syracuse. He is the author of two previous books and numerous articles on the geography of labor, urban public space, and contemporary theories of culture. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and has held a Fullbright Fellowship at the University of Oslo. He is the founder and director of the People's Geography Project (www.peoplesgeography.org).
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Public space engenders fears, fears that derive from the sense of public space as uncontrolled space, as a space in which civilization is exceptionally fragile. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brutal public sphere, pseudopublic spaces, public space zoning, informal zoning, public forum doctrine, panhandling law, public space law, material public spaces, park defenders, homeless deaths, bubble laws, park activists, locational conflict, unmediated interaction, homeless residents, urban public space, homeless people, shelter beds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
People's Park, United States, Supreme Court, Santa Ana, San Francisco, Hyde Park, Telegraph Avenue, Sproul Hall, South Campus, First Amendment, Free Speech Movement, San Diego, Sproul Plaza, American Steel Foundries, New York Times, Sather Gate, World War, University of California, Los Angeles Times, Matthew Arnold, Clark Kerr, Dean Towle, Chancellor Strong, Orange County, President Kerr New!
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Public space engenders fears, fears that derive from the sense of public space as uncontrolled space, as a space in which civilization is exceptionally fragile. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brutal public sphere, pseudopublic spaces, public space zoning, informal zoning, public forum doctrine, panhandling law, public space law, material public spaces, park defenders, homeless deaths, bubble laws, park activists, locational conflict, unmediated interaction, homeless residents, urban public space, homeless people, shelter beds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
People's Park, United States, Supreme Court, Santa Ana, San Francisco, Hyde Park, Telegraph Avenue, Sproul Hall, South Campus, First Amendment, Free Speech Movement, San Diego, Sproul Plaza, American Steel Foundries, New York Times, Sather Gate, World War, University of California, Los Angeles Times, Matthew Arnold, Clark Kerr, Dean Towle, Chancellor Strong, Orange County, President Kerr New!
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- Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order And Reducing Crime In Our Communities by George L. Kelling on 4 pages
- Spaces of Hope (California Studies in Critical Human Geography) by David Harvey in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The First Amendment by Louis M. Seidman on page 23, page 49, and page 73
- Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space by Michael Sorkin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis on page 141, and Back Matter
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- The Geography of Malcolm X: Black Radicalism and the Remaking of American Space by James Tyner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property by Nicholas Blomley in Back Matter
- The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism by Jason Hackworth in Back Matter
- After the Cosmopolitan?: Multicultural Cities and the Future of Racism by Michael Keith in Back Matter
- Reason in the City of Difference (Questioning Cities) by Gary Bridge in Back Matter
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