The Right to the City
Douban
Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
overview
"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."
contents
Introduction: The Fight for Public Space: What Has Changed?
1. To Go Again to Hyde Park: Public Space, Rights, and Social Justice
2. Making Dissent Safe for Democracy: Violence, Order, and the Legal Geography of Public Space
3. From Free Speech to People's Park: Locational Conflict and the Right to the City
4. The End of Public Space?: People's Park, the Public, and the Right to the City
5. The Annihilation of Space by Law: Anti-Homeless Laws and the Shrinking Landscape of Rights
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
