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Rights to Public Space

Law, Culture, and Gentrification in the American West

Sig Langegger (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XXVIII, 210 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783319411767 (ISBN)

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This book examines the roles that public space plays in gentrification. Considering both cultural norms of public behavior and the municipal regulation of behavior in public, it shows how commonplace acts in everyday public spaces like sidewalks, streets, and parks work to establish neighborhood legitimacy for newcomers while delegitimizing once authentic public practices of long-timers. With evidence drawn from the formerly Latino neighborhood of Highland in Denver, Colorado, this ethnographic study demonstrates how the regulation of public space plays a pivotal role in neighborhood change. First, there is often a profound disharmony between how people from different cultural complexes interpret and sanction behavior in everyday public spaces. Second, because regulations, codes, urban design, and enforcement protocols are deliberately changed, commonplace activities longtime neighborhood residents feel they have a right to do along sidewalks and streets and within their neighborhood parks sometimes unexpectedly misalign with what is actually possible or legal to do in these publicly accessible spaces.

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.

¿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?.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	XXVIII, 210 p. 15 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Area Studies • ethnography • Gentrification • Gentrifizierung / Gentrification • Governance • Neighborhood Change • Public Space • Social Sciences • Social Structure, Social Inequality • urban geography and urbanism • urban planning • Urban sociology • urban studies • Urban Studies/Sociology • US West
ISBN-13	9783319411767 / 9783319411767
Zustand	Neuware