The Right to the City : Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space

Introduction The Fight for Public Space: What Has Changed? 1(12) To Go Again to Hyde Park: Public Space, Rights, and Social Justice 13(29) Public Space and the Right to the City 17(25) Making Dissent Safe for Democracy: Violence, Order, and the Legal Geography of Public Space 42(39) Bubble Laws, Abortion Rights, and the Legal Content of Public Space 43(4) Regulating Public Space 47(4) Violence, Order, and the Contradictions of Public Space 51(3) Disorder, Violence, and the Legal Construction of Public Space before World War I 54(4) Making Dissent Safe for Democracy 58(13) Regulating Public Forums 71(3) Conclusion 74(7) From Free Speech to People's Park: Locational Conflict and the Right to the City 81(37) Nonconformists, Anarchists, and Communists: Free Speech in Berkeley 83(22) From Free Speech to Counterculture: Urban Renewal and the Battle for People's Park 105(13) The End of Public Space? People's Park, the Public, and the Right to the City 118(43) Struggling over Public Space: The Volleyball Riots 118(10) The Dialectic of Public Space 128(2) The Importance of Public Space in Democratic Societies 130(4) The Position of the Homeless in Public Space and as Part of the Public 134(3) Public Space in the Contemporary City 137(5) The End of Public Space? 142(5) The Necessity of Material Public Spaces 147(4) Conclusion: The End of People's Park as a Public Space? 151(1) Coda 152(9) The Annihilation of Space by Law: Anti-Homeless Laws and the Shrinking Landscape of Rights 161(34) The Annihilating Economy 163(4) The Annihilation of People by Law 167(6) The Problem of Regulation 173(8) Citizenship in the Spaces of the City: A Brutal Public Sphere 181(3) Landscape or Public Space? 184(6) Conclusion 190(5) No Right to the City: Anti-Homeless Campaigns, Public Space Zoning, and the Problem of Necessity 195(32) ``Broken Windows'' 199(5) Santa Ana's Anti-Camping Ordinance and the Problem of Necessity 204(5) Anti-Homeless Campaigns and the Content of Contemporary Urban Justice 209(2) Public Space Zoning 211(8) Conclusion 219(8) Conclusion The Illusion and Necessity of Order: Toward a Just City 227(12) Spaces of Justice 230(9) References 239(24) Index 263(7) About the Author 270