Research Catalog

Title

Beyond Zuccotti Park : freedom of assembly and the occupation of public space / edited by Ron Shiffman [and others].

Publication

Oakland, CA : New Village Press, [2012], ©2012.

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Additional Authors

Shiffman, Ron.

Description

xxii, 410 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Subject

• Public spaces > Political aspects
• Assembly, Right of
• Civil rights
• Zoning, Exclusionary

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-396) and index.

Contents

• 1. Occupy! Occupying public space, 2011 : from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park / Karen A. Franck, Te-Sheng Huang ; Occupy Wall Street, social movements, and contested public space / Benjamin Shepard ; "A stiff clarifying test is in order" : occupy and negotiating rights in public space / Gregory Smithsimon ; Being there / Wendy E. Brawer, Brennan S. Cavanaugh ; Politics out of place : Occupy Wall Street and the rhetoric of "filth" / Julian Brash ; To occupy / Saskia Sassen ; The office of the people / Gan Golan ; Some unresolved constitutional questions / Arthur Eisenberg -- 2. Emplacing equity and social justice. Making public, beyond public space / Jeffrey Hou ; Freedom corner : reflections on a public space for dissent in a fractured city / Mindy Thompson Fullilove with Terri Baltimore ; Occupying dissent : a conversation with Maya Wiley / Ron Shiffman ; Whose voice : the limited participation of color in the Occupy movement / Roland V. Anglin ; Emplacing democratic design / Michael Rios -- 3. Reimagining public space. The sidewalks of New York / Michael Sorkin ; Radical imagination / Caron Atlas ; Room to grow something / Paula Z. Segal ; Openhearted cities / Lynne Elizabeth ; Life and death in public places / Nikki Stern.
• 4. Public space over time. The grass is always greener : a brief history of public space and protest in New York City and London / Lisa Keller ; The romance of public space / Marshall Berman ; Places that matter : Zuccotti Park before / after / now / Alexander Cooper ; Public space and its disconnects / Rick Bell ; Public space then and in the future / Lance Jay Brown ; Pushing back boundaries : how social movements are redefining the public space / Sadra Shahab, Shirin Barghi -- 5. Responsive change. 5.1. Public sector agents of change. Occupy and the provision of public space : the city's responsibilities / Peter Marcuse ; Is "public space" possible? / David Burney ; Making- and governing- places for democracy / Brad Lander, Michael Freedman-Schnapp ; Making cities work / Janette Sadik-Khan.
• 5.2 Designers and developers as agents of change. Blurring the boundaries to keep public space public / Paul Broches ; When domestic space meets civic space : a case for design populism / Michael Pyatok ; Shaping public space, shaping our city / Susan Chin ; Public space : opening streets and sidewalks / Jonathan Marvel ; Designed to be occupied / Signe Nielsen ; Pops, out of the shadows : a designer's perspective / Thomas Balsley ; Developing the public realm : a conversation with Jonathan Rose / Ron Shiffman ; Programming public space : a conversation with Carlton Brown / Ron Shiffman with Anastassia Fisyak -- A call for actions / Ron Shiffman and Jeffrey Hou.

ISBN

• 9781613320099
• 1613320094
• 9781613320112
• 1613320116

LCCN

• 2012022472
• 99974123555

OCLC

• ocn783151725
• 783151725
• SCSB-9417251

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries