Description
Includes a 2014 Postscript addressing Occupy Wall Street and other developments. 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. Don Mitchell explores how political dissent gains meaning and momentum--and is regulated and policed--in the real, physical spaces of the city. A series of linked cases provides in-depth analyses of early twentieth-century labor demonstrations, the Free Speech Movement and the history of People's Park in Berkeley, contemporary anti-abortion protests, and efforts to remove homeless people from urban streets.
Chapter
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
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
3: From Free Speech to People's Park
Nonconformists, Anarchists, and Communists
From 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 Necessity of Material Public Spaces
5: The Annihilation of Space by Law
The Annihilation of People by Law
The Problem of Regulation
Citizenship in the Spaces of the City
Landscape or Public Space
Santa Ana's Anti-Camping Ordinance and the Problem of Necessity
Anti-Homeless Campaigns and the Content of Contemporary Urban Justice
Conclusion: The Illusion and Necessity of Order
Postscript (2014): Now What Has Changed?
The Right to the City
：Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
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