
By Lynn Staeheli,Donald Mitchell
ISBN-10: 041595522X
ISBN-13: 9780415955225
ISBN-10: 0415955238
ISBN-13: 9780415955232
The People’s Property? is the 1st book-length scholarly exam of the way negotiations over the possession, keep watch over, and peopling of public house are imperative to the advance of exposure, citizenship, and democracy in city parts. The e-book asks the questions: Why does it topic who owns public estate? Who controls it? who's in it? Donald Mitchell and Lynn A. Staeheli solution the questions through targeting the interaction among estate (in its geographical feel, as a parcel of owned area) and folks. estate rights are frequently outlined because the "right to exclude." it's important, as a result, to appreciate who (what person and company entities, ruled through what different types of laws and regulations) owns publicly obtainable estate. it truly is likewise very important to appreciate the altering bases for apart from a few humans and periods of individuals from another way publicly obtainable estate. that's to assert, it is very important know the way modes of entry and percentages for organization in publicly obtainable area differ for various members and diverse sessions of individuals, if we're to appreciate the function public areas play in shaping democratic percentages. In what methods are city public areas "the people’s estate" – and in what methods are they no longer? What does this suggest for citizenship and the structure of an inclusive, democratic polity? The e-book develops its argument via 5 case experiences: protest in Washington DC; struggles over the Plaza of Santa Fe, NM; homelessness and estate redevelopment in San Diego, CA; the enclosure of public house in a mall in Syracuse, big apple; and group gardens in ny urban. notwithstanding empirically interested in the united states, the publication is of broader pursuits as publics in all liberal democracies are under-going swift reconsideration and transformation.