Lost in space : the criminalization, globalization, and urban ecology of homelessness / Randall Amst...
Lost in space : the criminalization, globalization, and urban ecology of homelessness / Randall Amst...
Lost in space : the criminalization, globalization, and urban ecology of homelessness / Randall Amster.
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Publisher
New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., c2008.
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N362.5/53
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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...
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Publisher
New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., c2008.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
"Randall Amster explores homelessness as both a social and spatial problem. Homeless people are on the front lines of a struggle to preserve places that are theoretically open to anyone regardless of status. Urban spaces in particular manifest a complex ecology comprised of people, culture, architecture, technology, and the natural environment, exp...
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Lost in space : the criminalization, globalization, and urban ecology of homelessness / Randall Amster.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliography (p. 239-263)
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Date Copyright
c2008.
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N362.5/53
Record Identifier
74VMbPxXe6Ol
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMbPxXe6Ol
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ISBN
9781593322977 (alk. paper)
DDC
362.5
MMS ID
991000689379702626
