Mean Streets : Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital /

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"Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and economic logic behind the historical development, evolution, and especially persistence of homelessness in the contemporary city. By updating and revisiting thirty years of research and thinking, Don Mitchell expl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Don, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban policy.
Public spaces.
Homelessness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis.
Espaces publics > États-Unis.
Itinerance > États-Unis.
Urban policy > United States.
Public spaces > United States.
Homelessness > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Homelessness as class war. Boise, "Africa," and the limits to capital
  • Footloose rebels
  • Power abhors a tent
  • The criminalization of survival
  • Homelessness, public space, and the limits to capital
  • Part 2. Mean streets metastasized. The SUV model of citizenship
  • Judicial anti-urbanism
  • Doing antisocial things.

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