Mean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital

by Don Mitchell

Book Overview

The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters. And the problem of the American city is epitomized in public space. Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and economic logic behind the historical development, evolution, and especially the persistence of homelessness in the contemporary American city. By updating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820356905
• ISBN13: 9780820356907
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"