This is the first book-length scholarly examination of how negotiations over the ownership, control, and peopling of public space are central to the development of publicity, citizenship, and democracy in urban areas. The book asks the questions: Why does it matter who owns public property? Who controls it? Who is in it?
This is the first book-length scholarly examination of how negotiations over the ownership, control, and peopling of public space are central to the development of publicity, citizenship, and democracy in urban areas. The book asks the questions: Why does it matter who owns public property? Who controls it? Who is in it?
Don Mitchell is a Distinguished Professor of Geography and Chair of the Geography Department in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He is the author of The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (1996); Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction (2000); and The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (2003). Mitchell is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and has held a Fulbright Fellowship in the Institutt for Sociologi og Samfunnsgeografi at the Universitetet i Oslo. Lynn A. Staeheli is Ogivlie Professor of Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh. In addition to her research on public space, she studies citizenship, political activism, and immigration. Recent books include co-edited volumes Mapping Women, Making Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography and Globalization and Its Outcomes.
Inhaltsangabe
The People's Property?Power Politics and the Public Chapter 1: Permitting Protest in Washington D.C. Chapter 2: Property Law and the Plaza of Santa Fe New Mexico: Turning Social Relations into Space Chapter 3: Privately Public: Property Redevelopment Public Space and Homelessness in San Diego Chapter 4: Publicly Private: Regulating Space and Creating Community in Syracuse's Carousel Center Chapter 5: Publicizing Public Property? The Struggle for the Public in New York's Community Gardens Chapter 6: Placing the Public: Discourses of Publicity and Practices of Property Chapter 7: Power Politics and Regimes of Publicity: Conclusions Post Script: Interventions Methodological Appendix References Index
The People's Property?Power Politics and the Public Chapter 1: Permitting Protest in Washington D.C. Chapter 2: Property Law and the Plaza of Santa Fe New Mexico: Turning Social Relations into Space Chapter 3: Privately Public: Property Redevelopment Public Space and Homelessness in San Diego Chapter 4: Publicly Private: Regulating Space and Creating Community in Syracuse's Carousel Center Chapter 5: Publicizing Public Property? The Struggle for the Public in New York's Community Gardens Chapter 6: Placing the Public: Discourses of Publicity and Practices of Property Chapter 7: Power Politics and Regimes of Publicity: Conclusions Post Script: Interventions Methodological Appendix References Index
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