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

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

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"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.

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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.

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