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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?1(12)
To Go Again to Hyde Park: Public Space, Rights, and Social Justice
13(29)
Public Space and the Right to the City
17(25)
Making Dissent Safe for Democracy: Violence, Order, and the Legal Geography of Public Space
42(39)
Bubble Laws, Abortion Rights, and the Legal Content of Public Space
43(4)
Regulating Public Space
47(4)
Violence, Order, and the Contradictions of Public Space
51(3)
Disorder, Violence, and the Legal Construction of Public Space before World War I
54(4)
Making Dissent Safe for Democracy
58(13)
Regulating Public Forums
71(3)
Conclusion
74(7)
From Free Speech to People's Park: Locational Conflict and the Right to the City
81(37)
Nonconformists, Anarchists, and Communists: Free Speech in Berkeley
83(22)
From Free Speech to Counterculture: Urban Renewal and the Battle for People's Park
105(13)
The End of Public Space? People's Park, the Public, and the Right to the City
118(43)
Struggling over Public Space: The Volleyball Riots
118(10)
The Dialectic of Public Space
128(2)
The Importance of Public Space in Democratic Societies
130(4)
The Position of the Homeless in Public Space and as Part of the Public
134(3)
Public Space in the Contemporary City
137(5)
The End of Public Space?
142(5)
The Necessity of Material Public Spaces
147(4)
Conclusion: The End of People's Park as a Public Space?
151(1)
Coda
152(9)
The Annihilation of Space by Law: Anti-Homeless Laws and the Shrinking Landscape of Rights
161(34)
The Annihilating Economy
163(4)
The Annihilation of People by Law
167(6)
The Problem of Regulation
173(8)
Citizenship in the Spaces of the City: A Brutal Public Sphere
181(3)
Landscape or Public Space?
184(6)
Conclusion
190(5)
No Right to the City: Anti-Homeless Campaigns, Public Space Zoning, and the Problem of Necessity
195(32)
``Broken Windows''
199(5)
Santa Ana's Anti-Camping Ordinance and the Problem of Necessity
204(5)
Anti-Homeless Campaigns and the Content of Contemporary Urban Justice
209(2)
Public Space Zoning
211(8)
Conclusion
219(8)
Conclusion The Illusion and Necessity of Order: Toward a Just City
227(12)
Spaces of Justice
230(9)
References239(24)
Index263(7)
About the Author270