Street People and the Contested Realms of Public SpaceAmster studies the social and spatial implications of homelessness in America. Increasingly, commentators have lamented the erosion of public space, charting its decline along with the rise of commercialization and privatization. A result is the criminalization of homelessness, a phenomenon revealed here through participant observations, informal conversations, and in-depth interviews with street people, city officials, and social service providers. Amster explores the interconnections among: (i) the impetus of development and gentrification; (ii) the enactment of anti-homeless ordinances and regulations; (iii) the material and ideological erosion of public space; (iv) emerging forces of resistance to these trends; and (v) the continuing viability of anti-systemic movements. |
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Page 53
... Neil Giuliano's interpretation of the recent history of redevelopment in Tempe : " The early years of the downtown redevelopment debate were not focused on city incentives to developers . The concerns , rather , were centered on the ...
... Neil Giuliano's interpretation of the recent history of redevelopment in Tempe : " The early years of the downtown redevelopment debate were not focused on city incentives to developers . The concerns , rather , were centered on the ...
Page 79
... Neil Giuliano ominously expounded on the implications of his " individual culpability " perspective : " I don't feel badly at all for the pack kids , the ones that hang out in clusters around Coffee Plantation , who have chosen to live ...
... Neil Giuliano ominously expounded on the implications of his " individual culpability " perspective : " I don't feel badly at all for the pack kids , the ones that hang out in clusters around Coffee Plantation , who have chosen to live ...
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... Neil Giuliano said protesters didn't seem to understand the need for the law . ' They have the concept of social justice just all backward , ' he said . ' They want the right to sit on the sidewalk and block other people's rights and ...
... Neil Giuliano said protesters didn't seem to understand the need for the law . ' They have the concept of social justice just all backward , ' he said . ' They want the right to sit on the sidewalk and block other people's rights and ...
Contents
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SPACE | 21 |
Disneyfication | 51 |
Skid Row | 73 |
Copyright | |
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activists aggressive panhandling anarchism anarchist communities anti-homeless appearance Arizona Republic arrested ASU State Press behavior benches broken windows Centerpoint challenge citizens city council city of Tempe civility commercial court crime Criminalization of Homelessness critical culture Disneyfication dominant Don Mitchell DTC's East Valley Tribune editorial enforcement existence Ferrell Fixing Broken Windows forces Foscarinis gentrification global homeless homeless communities human individuals issue justice Kawash likewise lives Lofland merchants Mill Avenue Mill Rats Mitchell nature NLCHP notes observes owners park person Police Department political private property problem processes protest public sidewalk public space Rainbow Family Randall Amster realm redevelopment resistance Rod Keeling sense shelter sidewalk law sidewalk ordinance sidewalk sitting similarly sit-in slackers sleeping society spatial strategies TEAM Tempe Butte Tempe City Jail Tempe Police Tempe's homeless theory transient urban camping utopian vagabond Waldron
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Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the ... Randall Amster No preview available - 2009 |