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Rights to Public Space

Law, Culture, and Gentrification in the American West

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Authors:
  1. Sig Langegger

    1. Akita International University , Akita City, Japan

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  • 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

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. ¿Dónde Está Highland?

    • Sig Langegger
    Pages 1-25

  3. Public Space and the Rights-Rift

    • Sig Langegger
    Pages 27-51

  4. Rights to Public Space

    • Sig Langegger
    Pages 53-70

  5. Vacant Space

    • Sig Langegger
    Pages 71-91

  6. Temporary Space

    • Sig Langegger
    Pages 93-116

  7. Sidewalk Space

    • Sig Langegger
    Pages 117-140

  8. Street Space

    • Sig Langegger
    Pages 141-164

  9. Park Space

    • Sig Langegger
    Pages 165-191

  10. Coda: Now What?

    • Sig Langegger
    Pages 193-203

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 205-210
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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.

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  • Akita International University , Akita City, Japan

    Sig Langegger

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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.

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