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/// ONLINE RESOURCES /// PRINT RESOURCES /// ORGANIZATIONS /// DOCUMENTARY FILMS /// TOURS /// REGIONAL PROFILES (Toronto, Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires) ///

<< ONLINE RESOURCES >>

Entrepreneurial urban politics and urban social movements in Los Angeles: The struggle for urban farmland in South Central / Henrik Lebuhn
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2006-10-09-lebuhn-en.html

The Politics of Verticality / Eyal Weizman
http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-politicsverticality/article_801.jsp

Is the world getting larger or smaller? / Doreen Massey
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision_reflections/world_small_4354.jsp

The violence of participation: Spatial practices beyond models of consensus / Markus Miessen
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2007-08-01-miessen-en.html

Made in Washington: Spatial practices as a blueprint for human rights violations / Markus Miessen
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2006-06-30-miessen-en.html

Exterritories and Camps: Juridical-Political Spaces in the "War on Terrorism" / An Architektur
http://www.republicart.net/disc/empire/anarchitektur01_en.htm

Tactics of Mobility: The Spatial Politics of Street Vending in Los Angeles / Kenny Cupers
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~cupers/streetvending.html

The Black Flag: Guantánamo and the Space of Exception / Derek Gregory
http://web.mac.com/derekgregory/iWeb/Site/The%20global%20war%20prison.html

De-politicizing Border Space / Elaine Peña
http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/journal/

The Liberalization of Free Speech: Or, How Protest in Public Space is Silenced / Don Mitchell
http://agora.stanford.edu/agora/volume4/mitchell.shtml

There is a Politics of Space because Space is Political: Henri Lefebvre and the Production of Space / Stuart Elden
http://www.anarchitektur.com/aa01-lefebvre/elden.html

A Marx for Our Time: Henri Lefebvre and The Production of Space / Mark Gottdiener
http://www.anarchitektur.com/aa01-lefebvre/gottdiener.html

Border Battles: The U.S. Immigration Debates / Social Science Research Council
http://borderbattles.ssrc.org/

Understanding Katrina / Social Science Research Council
http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/

World Charter of the Rights to the City / World Social Forum
http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/2243.html

Research Architecture / Goldsmiths
http://roundtable.kein.org/

Territories / Witte de With
http://www.wdw.nl/project.php?id=15

<< PRINT RESOURCES >>

Boyne, G and M Powell. 1991. Territorial justice: a review of theory and evidence. Political Geography Quarterly 10: 263-81.

Brenner, Neil. 1998. Between Fixity and Motion: Accumulation, Territorial Organization and the Historical Geography of Spatial Scales. Environment and Planning D: Society and
Space 16: 459-81.

________. 2004. Urban governance and the production of new state spaces in western Europe, 1960-2000. Review of International Political Economy 11-3: 447-88.

Coates, B.E., R.J. Johnston, P. Knox. 1977. Geography and Inequality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cresswell, Tim. 1996. In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Davies, Bleddyn. 1968. Social Needs and Resources in Local Services. London: Michael Joseph.

Deutsche, Rosalyn. 1996. Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Dikec, Mustafa. 2001. Justice and the spatial imagination. Environment and Planning A 33: 1785-1805.

Fainstein, Susan. 2000. New directions in planning theory. Urban Affairs Review 35: 451-478.

Flusty, Steven. 1994. Building Paranoia: The Proliferation of Interdictory Space and the Erosion of Spatial Justice. West Hollywood: LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

Graham, Stephen and Simon Marvin. 2001. Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilites and the Urban Condition. London: Routledge.

Harvey, David. 1973. Social Justice and the City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

________. 1992. Social justice, postmodernism, and the city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 16: 588-601.

________. 1996. Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference. Malden and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

________. 2000. Spaces of Hope. Berkeley: University of California Press.

________. 2006. The right to the city. In Richard Scholar ed., Divided Cities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Houston, D. and Pulido, Laura. 2001. The Work of Performativity: Staging Social Justice at the University of Southern California. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20: 401-424.

Isin, Engin. 2002. Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Kohn, Margaret. 2003. Radical Space: Building the house of the people. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Lefebvre, Henri. 1991 [1974]. The Production of Space. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

________. 1996. Writings on Cities, translated by E Kofman and E Lebas. Oxford: Blackwell.

Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, Eve Blumenberg and Renia Ehrenfeucht. 2004. Sidewalk Democracy: Municipalities and the Regulation of Public Space. In Eran Ben-Joseph and Terry Szold, eds., Regulating Place. New York: Routledge.

Merrifield, Andy. 2000. Living Wage Activism in the American City. Social Text 62 18-1: 31-54.

________. and E Swyngedouw eds. 1997. The Urbanization of Injustice. New York: NYU Press.

Mitchell, Don. 2003. The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space. New York: Guildford Press.

Nicholls, W. 2003. Forging a New Organizational Infrastructure for Los Angeles Progressive Community. IJURR 27: 881-96.

Painter, Joe. 2005. Urban Citizenship and rights to the city. International Centre for Regional Regeneration and Development Studies (ICRRDS), Durham University.

Pirie, Gordon H. 1983. On spatial justice. Environment and Planning A 15: 465-73.

Purcell, Mark. 2003. Citizenship and the right to the global city: Reimagining the Capitalist World Order. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27: 564-90.

________. 2004. Excavating Lefebvre: the right to the city. Geojournal 58: 99-108.

________. 2006. Urban democracy and the local trap. Urban Studies 43: 1921-41.

Rawls, John. 1971. A Theory of Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

________. 1993. Political Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press.

Reynaud, Alain. 1981. Société, espace et justice: inégalités régionales et justice socio-spatiale. Paris, Presses de l’universite France.

Smith, David M. 1994. Geography and Social Justice. Oxford: Blackwell.

________. 2000. Social justice revisited. Environment and Planning A 32: 1149-62.

Soja, Edward W. 2000. Postmetropolis. Oxford: Blackwell: 407-15.

Wilton, Robert D. and Cynthia Cranford. 2002. Towards An Understanding of the Spatiality of Social Movements: Labor Organizing at a Private University in Los Angeles. Social Problems, 49 3: 374-94.

Yiftachel, Oren. 1994. The dark side of modernism: planning as control of an ethnic minority. In Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson eds., Postmodern Cities and Spaces. Oxford: Blackwell.

Young, Iris Marion. 1990. Justice and the Politics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

________. 2000. Democratic Regionalism. Inclusion and Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.

________. 2005. Structural Injustice and the Politics of Difference. AHRC Centre for Law, Gender, and Sexuality Intersectionality Workshop. 21/22 May, Keele University, UK.

<< ORGANIZATIONS >>

Asian Pacific Environmental Network
http://www.apen4ej.org

Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
http://www.ccaej.org

Center for Justice, Tolerance, & Community (UCSC)
http://cjtc.ucsc.edu/cjtc.html

Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
http://www.crpe-ej.org

City Repair
http://www.cityrepair.org/wiki.php

Communities for a Better Environment
http://www.cbecal.org

Environmental Health Coalition (San Diego)
http://www.environmentalhealth.org

Greenaction
http://www.greenaction.org

Indigenous Environmental Network
http://www.ienearth.org

Mayfair Improvement Initiative
http://www.mayfairneighborhood.org

National Black Environmental Justice Network
http://www.nbejn.org

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
http://svtc.etoxics.org

Global Green
http://www.globalgreen.org

National Resources Defence Council
http://nrdc.org

City Life (Boston - RTTC)
http://www.clvu.org/about

Miami Workers Center
http://www.miamiworkerscenter.org

<< DOCUMENTARY FILMS >>

Sacred Land Film Project / Christopher McLeod
http://www.sacredland.org/films.html

Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action / Roberta Grossman
http://www.katahdin.org/films/homeland/intro.html

The Return of Navajo Boy / Jeff Spitz
http://www.navajoboy.com

Trespassing / Carlos Blumberg DeMenezes
http://www.trespassingdocumentary.com/site.asp

Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage / Heather Rogers
http://www.gonetomorrow.org

The Snowbowl Effect / Klee Benally
http://www.savethepeaks.org/snowbowleffect/

Venezuela from Below / Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler
http://www.azzellini.net/filmvenezuela.htm

Disappeared in America / Naeem Mohaiemen
http://www.disappearedinamerica.org/video/

Infinite Shades of Gray / Toyo Miyatake
http://www.janm.org/mediaarts/projects/toyo.html

Rancho California (Por Favor) / John Caldwell
http://www.berkeleymedia.com

Agadez Chronicle / Ursula Biemann
http://www.geobodies.org/01_art_and_videos/2006_agadez_chronicle/

Performing the Border / Ursula Biemann
http://www.geobodies.org/01_art_and_videos/1999_performing_the_border/

Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1524953392810656786&hl=en

The Other Side / Bill Brown
http://www.freespeech.org/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=1465

Crossing Arizona / Joseph Mathew and Dan DeVivo
http://www.crossingaz.com/

Los / James Benning
http://arttorrents.blogspot.com/2007/08/james-benning-los-2004.html

History and Memory / Rea Tajiri
http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=4027

Misc Films
http://del.icio.us/criticalspatialpractice/film

<< TOURS >>

Lynching in the West: Los Angeles Downtown Walking Tour / Ken Gonzales-Day
http://kengonzalesday.com/projects/hangtrees/walkingtour.htm

The Los Angeles River / Alan Loomis & Jennifer Price
http://www.deliriousla.net/lariver/tours.htm

Invisible Trajectories: Passing Through the Inland Empire / Claude Wiley & Deena Capparelli
http://www.chaffey.edu/wignall/invisibletrajectories/menu.html

A Walk to Remember: Bunker Hill and the Sherman Indian High School in Riverside / Meg Cranston
http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=332&fid=6&sid=17

Parking Public / Temporary Travel Office
http://www.temporarytraveloffice.net/hollywood/parking.html

Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) Tours
http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/pro_pro/tours/index.html

Los Angeles Urban Rangers
http://www.laurbanrangers.org

Military Tour of Los Angeles / Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles
http://www.psrla.org/militarytour.htm
http://www.psrla.org/program_military_toxins.htm

Toxic Tour of Los Angeles / Communities for a Better Environment
http://www.cbecal.org/action/toxic.html

Expeditions / Trevor Paglen
http://www.paglen.com/pages/projects/nowhere/expeditions.htm

Invisible-5
http://invisible5.org

Free Soil Bus Tour / Gardening Silicon Valley Superfund Sites
http://www.free-soil.org/tour/

Silicon Valley Toxic Tour
http://www.etoxics.org/site/PageServer?pagename=svtc_silicon_valley_toxic_tour

Toxic Tour of Texas
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/texas/toxic/index.html

And While London Burns / PLATFORM
http://www.andwhilelondonburns.com

Freedom in the City / PLATFORM
http://www.platformlondon.org/fitc.asp

Catastrophic Space (Beirut) / Partizan Publik / Tony Chakar
http://www.partizanpublik.nl/catastrophicspace/site.html

<< REGIONAL PROFILES >>

< Toronto >

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
http://ocap.ca

Planning Action
http://www.planningaction.org

Planning Action forum/cabaret on spatial justice
http://ca.geocities.com/planningaction@rogers.com/actions/outofspace.htm

Toronto Public Space Committee
http://www.publicspace.ca

Spacing
http://spacing.ca

Toronto School for Creative Inquiry
http://www.tsci.ca

Toronto Free Gallery
http://torontofreegallery.org

Multistory Complex
http://www.multistorycomplex.org

No One Is Illegal - Toronto
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org

Murmur
http://murmurtoronto.ca

< Chicago >

Center for Neighborhood Technology
http://www.cnt.org

AREA Chicago
http://areachicago.org

Experimental Station
http://www.experimentalstation.org

The Invisible Institute
http://www.invisibleinstitute.com

Resource Center / City Farm
http://www.resourcecenterchicago.org

Mess Hall
http://www.messhall.org

Department of Space and Land Reclamation / Counter Productive Industries
http://www.counterproductiveindustries.com

Trashing the Neoliberal City: Autonomous Cultural Practices in Chicago from 2000-2005
http://www.learningsite.info/trashing003.htm

Stockyard Institute
http://www.stockyardinstitute.org

Feel Tank
http://feeltankchicago.net

Queer to the Left
http://www.queertotheleft.org

< New Orleans >

Greater New Orleans Neighborhood Data Center
http://www.gnocdc.org

Katrina Research Hub / Social Science Research Council
http://katrinaresearchhub.ssrc.org

Understanding Katrina / SSRC
http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org

Amnesty for Survivors of Hurricane Katrina / Critical Resistance
http://www.criticalresistance.org/katrina/

Katrina Uncovers and New Orleans Now / Making Contact / National Radio Project
http://www.radioproject.org/archive/katrina.html

Justice Re-Investment New Orleans / Spatial Information Design Lab
http://criticalspatialpractice.blogspot.com/2007/06/

Common Ground Collective
http://commongroundrelief.org

ACORN
http://acorn.org

People's Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
http://www.peopleshurricane.org

Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
http://southernstudies.org/gulfwatch/

The Urban Conservancy
http://www.urbanconservancy.org

Stay Local!
http://www.staylocal.org

Friends of Lafitte Corridor
http://www.folc-nola.org

The Neighborhood Story Project
http://www.neighborhoodstoryproject.org

< Los Angeles >

Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE)
http://www.saje.net

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)
http://www.laane.org

Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN)
http://www.cangress.org

Youth Justice Coalition
http://www.youth4justice.org

A New Way of Life Reentry Project
http://www.anewwayoflife.org

Ultra-red
http://www.ultrared.org

Los Angeles Poverty Department
http://lapovertydept.org

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
http://www.lafla.org

The October Surprise
http://www.theoctobersurprise.org

Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
http://www.socallib.org

The Center for the Study of Political Graphics
http://www.politicalgraphics.org

The Journal for Aesthetics and Protest
http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org

Bicycle Kitchen
http://www.bicyclekitchen.com

Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network (MIWON)
http://thistuesday.org/node/127

Garment Worker Center
http://www.garmentworkercenter.org

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
http://www.chirla.org

Justice for Janitors
http://www.seiu.org/property/janitors/

Bus Riders Union (BRU)
http://www.busridersunion.org

Union de Vecinos
http://www.uniondevecinos.org

Red Nation Celebration
http://www.rednation.com

Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles
http://www.psrla.org

Critical Resistance - Los Angeles
http://criticalresistance.org/article.php?list=type&type=26

Madres del Este de Los Angeles/Santa Isabel (Mothers of East LA/Santa Isabel)
http://clnet.sscnet.ucla.edu/community/intercambios/melasi/

South Central Farm Archive
http://www.scfarchive.org

Southcentral Farmers
http://www.southcentralfarmers.org

Studio for Southern California History
http://www.socalstudio.org

Space Ark
http://spacearkgallery.com

East Side Cafe
http://eastsidecafe.revolt.org/Main/HomePage

Home Girl Cafe / Mama's Hot Tamales
http://www.homeboy-industries.org/cafe.php

Casa de Pueblo
http://casadelpueblocoop.org

Urban Envirionmental Policy Institute
http://departments.oxy.edu/uepi/

The City Project
http://www.cityprojectca.org

FoLAR - Friends of the Los Angeles River
http://folar.org

Amigos de Los Rios
http://amigosdelosrios.org

Living Room Project
http://www.designerbuildermagazine.com/designerbuilder_sidewalk.html

Center for Sustainable Cities (USC)
http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/ESPE/

Communities for a Better Envronment
http://www.cbecal.org

Livable Places
http://www.livableplaces.org

Tree People
http://www.treepeople.org

Los Angeles Conservation Corps
http://www.lacorps.org

< Buenos Aires >

Colectivo Situaciones
http://www.situaciones.org

Grupo de Arte Callejero
http://hemi.nyu.edu/journal/april%202006/
http://gacgrupo.ar.tripod.com/
http://universes-in-universe.de/car/venezia/bien50/survival/calle-01-b.jpg

M7red and M77
http://www.m7red.com.ar

Rally Conurbano
http://rally-conurbano.blogspot.com

Julian D'Angiolillo / La Desplaza - Parque Rivadavia
http://www.elnuevomunicipio.com.ar

Las iconoclasistas
http://www.iconoclasistas.com.ar

Ala Plástica
http://www.alaplastica.org.ar
http://alaplastica.blogspot.com

Eduardo Molinari / Archivo Caminante - Walking Archive

Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo
http://www.madres.org

Madres de Plaza de Plaza de Mayo - Línea Fundadora
http://www.madresfundadoras.org.ar

Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo
http://www.abuelas.org.ar/english/history.htm

Proyecto Desaparecidos
http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/eng.html

H.I.J.O.S
http://www.hijos.org.ar

 

Photo: Right to the City, US Social Forum, Atlanta, June 27 — July 1, 2007 (SAJE)