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Author:

Mitchell, Don, 1961-

Title:

The right to the city : social justice and the fight for public space / Don Mitchell.

Publisher:

Guilford Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

viii, 270 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Public spaces--United States.
Social justice--United States.
Protest movements--United States.
Homeless persons--Civil rights--United States.
Urban geography--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-262) and index.

Contents:

The fight for public space: what has changed? -- To go again to Hyde Park: public space, rights, and social justice -- Making dissent safe for democracy: violence, order, and the legal geography of public space -- From free speech to People's Park: locational conflict and the right to the city -- The end of public space? People's Park, the public, and the right to the city -- The annihilation of space by law: anti-homeless laws and the shrinking landscape of rights -- No right to the city: anti-homeless campaigns, public space zoning, and the problem of necessity -- The illusion and necessity of order: toward a just city.

ISBN:

9781572308473 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1572308478 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51203456

LCCN:

2002155032

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)