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Don Mitchell, The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (New York and London: Guilford Press 2003)
DON MITCHELL's The Right to the City makes an original contribution to an expanding literature on contested access to urban public space by employing the concept of locational conflict. A human geographer at Syracuse University, Mitchell argues that "space, place, and location are not just the stage upon which rights are contested, but are actively produced by--and in turn serve to structure--struggles over rights ... In a class-based society, locational conflict can be understood to be conflict over the legitimacy of various uses of space, and thus of various strategies for asserting rights, by those who have been disenfranchised by the workings of property or other 'objective' social processes by which specific activities are assigned a location." (81)
Mitchell's book is influenced by Henri Lefebvre's writings, particularly the 1974 groundbreaking study La production de l'espace, and Le droit a la ville (1968), the inspiration for Mitchell's title. In the first of the six chapters, Mitchell draws from Lefebvre's insistence on the right of all citizens to inhabit the city. He argues that the problem with the bourgeois city is that it... |
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