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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Amster, Randall
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2004.
Colección:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Temas:
Homeless persons > Arizona > Tempe.
Homelessness > Arizona > Tempe.
Public spaces > Arizona > Tempe.
Public spaces > Law and legislation > Arizona > Tempe.
Sans-abri > Arizona > Tempe.
Itinérance > Arizona > Tempe.
Espaces publics > Arizona > Tempe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Homeless persons
Homelessness
Public spaces
Public spaces > Law and legislation
Arizona > Tempe
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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