The right to the city
Subtitle: social justice and the fight for public space
By: Don Mitchell.
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781572308473
Subjects: Public spaces -- United States; Social justice -- United States; Protest movements -- United States; Homeless persons -- Civil rights -- United States; Urban geography -- United States
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: The fight for public space: what has changed? --; title: To go again to Hyde Park: public space, rights, and social justice --; title: Making dissent safe for democracy: violence, order, and the legal geography of public space --; title: From free speech to People's Park: locational conflict and the right to the city --; title: The end of public space?: People's Park, the public, and the right to the city --; title: The annihilation of space by law: anti-homeless laws and the shrinking landscape of rights --; title: No right to the city: anti-homeless campaigns, public space zoning, and the problem of necessity --; title: The illusion and necessity of order: toward a just city.