Rights to Public Space

Law, Culture, and Gentrification in the American West
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-82286-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 316 g

Breaks new ground in the analysis of contemporary urban change
Demonstrates how everyday practices, traditionally thought to be consequences of gentrification, are often actively transformed to advance gentrification

Draws from ethnographic evidence and geographical theories of place, territory, and property to analyze the causes of gentrification in an inner-city neighborhood

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Langegger, Sig

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

¿Dónde Está Highland? .- Public Space and the Rights-Rift .- Rights to Public Space .- Vacant Space .- Temporary Space .- Sidewalk Space .- Street Space .- Park Space .- Coda: Now what?.

Über Autor(innen)

Sig Langegger is Assistant Professor of Geography at Akita International University, Japan. His work examines the spatial conditions that affect people’s lives as well as the urban plans and policies producing these conditions. Sig researches public space, property rights, social and environmental justice, gentrification, and the criminalization of homelessness.