Rights to Public Space : Law, Culture, and Gentrification in the American West

• Main Author: Langegger, Sig (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Urban geography.; Ethnography.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Area studies.; Sociology, Urban.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319411774
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41177-4
• Physical Description: XXVIII, 210 p. 15 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.

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 leg...