Rights to Public Space

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

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

Autorentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
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

Inhalt
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?.