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Street people and the contested realms of public space /

Annotation Amster 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 phenomen...

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Main Author: Amster, Randall
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2004.
Subjects:
Homeless persons > Arizona > Tempe.
Homelessness > Arizona > Tempe.
Public spaces > Arizona > Tempe.
Public spaces > Law and legislation > Arizona > Tempe.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:159332104X
9781593321048
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : meanings, methodologies, means and ends
  • 2. Theoretical perspectives on space
  • 3. "Tempe is fantasy land!" Disneyfication and the dystopian city
  • 4. Facing the "homeless problem" : skid row, survival, and the road to nowhere
  • 5. Patterns of exclusion : sanitizing space, criminalizing homelessness
  • 6. Case in point : a genealogy of the Tempe sidewalk ordinance
  • 7. Forces of resistance : civil rights struggles and the contested realms of public space
  • 8. Conclusion : localizing the global, globalizing the local.

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