Beschreibung:
The literature on modernist and postmodernist urban development is abundant, yet few researchers have taken up the challenge of studying the areas hi which marginalized people live as sources of resistance to continued modernization. In Marginal Spaces, Michael Smith has assembled case studies combining structural and historical analyses of the moves of powerful social interests to dominate social space, and the tactics and strategies various marginalized social groups employ to reclaim dominated space for their own use.
Acknowledgment, Introduction: The Social Construction of Marginal Spaces, 1 House People, Not Cars!: Economic Development, Political Struggle, and Common Sense in a City of Intellect, 2 Tranquility City: Self-Organization, Protest, and Collective Gains within a Chicago Homeless Encampment, 3 Private Redevelopment and the Changing Forms of Displacement in the East Village of New York, 4 Resisting Racially Gendered Space: The Women of the St. Thomas Resident Council, New Orleans, 5 Mixtecs and Mestizos in California Agriculture: Ethnic Displacement and Hierarchy among Mexican Farm Workers, Contributors