Lost in space [electronic resource] : the criminalization, globalization, and urban ecology of homelessness / Randall Amster.

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Amster, Randall

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ebrary, Inc

Publication details: New York : LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2008.Description: xiii, 269 p. : illISBN:

9781593322977 (alk. paper)
1593322976 (alk. paper)

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Electronic books.

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362.5 22

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HV4493 .A57 2008eb

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Contents:

Facing the "homeless problem" : subsistence, survival, and skid row -- Urban ecology and public space : Disney, development, and dystopia -- Patterns of exclusion : the perversity of homeless criminalization -- Mapping the territory : meanings, methodologies, means and ends -- Case in point : a brief history of the Tempe sidewalk ordinance -- The ecology of resistance : human rights struggles and the contested realms of public space -- Cities of the future : localizing the global, globalizing the local.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-263) and index.

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