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People's Park again

On the End and Ends of Public Space

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ID4139529
AuthorsDon Mitchell (0000-0001-8796-7756, Syracuse University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume49
Issue3
Pages503-518
Publication date2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308518x15611557
OpenAlexW2391015990
LanguageEN
Citations received59
References cited31

This paper uses three recent struggles over public space in California's East Bay (Berkeley and Oakland) to critically interrogate the 'end of public space' thesis. Developing a historical analysis of the discourse of the 'end of public space' over the past two and a half decades, the paper shows that dismissal of arguments about the end of public space both ignores the dialectical nature of the original interventions and comes at a real political and scholarly cost. The paper concludes that the tendency towards the end of public space in capitalism is closely related to the necessity for capitalism to produce abstract space. Both this tendency and this necessity are struggled over and contradictory, and it is out of these struggles and contradictions that actually-existing public space is produced

Capitalism · Dialectic · Dismissal · Epistemology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public space · Sociology · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Public Spaces through Art · Urban Planning and Governance

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