عنوان

Street people and the contested realms of public space /

159332104X

9781593321048

1593320663

9781593320669

b756917

Street people and the contested realms of public space /

[Book]

Randall Amster ; foreword by Jeff Ferrell.

New York :

LFB Scholarly Pub.,

2004.

1 online resource (ix, 235 pages) :

illustrations

Criminal justice, recent scholarship

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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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 phenomenon revealed here through participant observations, informal conversations, and in-depth interviews with street people, city officials, and social service providers. Amster explores the interconnections among: (i) the impetus of development and gentrification; (ii) the enactment of anti-homeless ordinances and regulations; (iii) the material and ideological erosion of public space; (iv) emerging forces of resistance to these trends; and (v) the continuing viability of anti-systemic movements.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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Street people and the contested realms of public space.

1593320663

Homeless persons-- Arizona-- Tempe.

Homelessness-- Arizona-- Tempe.

Public spaces-- Arizona-- Tempe.

Public spaces-- Law and legislation-- Arizona-- Tempe.

Homeless persons.

Homelessness.

Public spaces-- Law and legislation.

Public spaces.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Essays.

Arizona, Tempe.

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SOC-- 041000

Amster, Randall.

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