Global Best Practice or Regulating Fiction? Street Vending, Zero Tolerance and Conflicts Over Public Space in New York, 1980-2000

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Thomas Devlin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
Street Vending

Decriminalize Street Vending: Reform and Social Justice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Dunn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Space ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Racial Profiling ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The Great Recession

This chapter outlines how race- and class-based stratification and criminalization shape New York City’s street vending industry. The vast majority of New York’s street vendors are first generation immigrants of color who experience racial profiling for turning urban public space into their workplace. Since the Great Recession, a small but growing class of native-born and highly educated actors have been able to enter this profoundly criminalized industry with comparative ease largely due to class and race privileges, spurring gentrification through the city’s underground food permit rental market. The author argues that any meaningful reform of New York’s broken system of street vending oversight must directly engage these inequities and work to decriminalize poor and working class street vendors of color through a participatory and inclusive process rooted in principles of social justice.

Governance of Informal Public Space in Urban China: A Post-modern Critique of Spatial Formalization of Urban Street Vending

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-55
Author(s):  
Gengzhi Huang ◽  
Desheng Xue ◽  
Kongdan Xu ◽  
Yanshan Yang ◽  
Kunlun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Urban Street

scholarly journals Zero-Tolerance in Catalonia: Policing the Other in Public Space

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Lundsteen ◽  
Miquel Fernández González
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Sociocultural Practices

AbstractRecent studies have argued for more nuanced understandings of zero tolerance (ZT) policing, rendering it essential to analyze the significance and actual workings of the policies in practice, including the context in which they are introduced. This article aims to accomplish this through a comparison of two case studies in Catalonia: one in the neighborhood of Raval in Barcelona and one in Salt—a municipality in the comarca (or county) of Girona. We identify a transformation in the use of ZT policies in Catalonia and a contradiction between their social effects and proclaimed objectives. This article attempts to address how specific sociocultural groups gain power and privilege from these policies. The main argument is that a set of commonsensical ideas have become hegemonic, which allows and naturalizes certain sociocultural practices in urban space, while persecuting others, fundamentally pitting two categories against each other: the desired civil citizen and the undesirable and uncivil stranger.

Co-production of public space: policy translations from New York City to the Netherlands

2016 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rianne van Melik ◽  
Erwin van der Krabben
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Space ◽  
York City ◽  
Space Policy

scholarly journals Metropolitan Vision, Stakeholder Action and Community Involvement in Regeneration of Seaside Cities: Innovative Strategies from New York City for the Gulf of Naples

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 232-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Clemente
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gulf Of Naples

This paper suggests to reflect on the waterfront in a nontraditional way, referring to theoretical and methodological assumptions, developed in recent years about “Cities from the Sea” by our research group in the National Research Council of Italy. So the first step is to move from cognitive analysis to proposals and projects. We can refer to the positive experience of New York that is a best practice in approach, strategies and results. The key of this success is a synthesis of the metropolitan vision favored by the public government, the activation of stakeholders to get results of common interest, the involvement of local communities. People was informed and motivated to put a position, they were encouraged to participate and to give a significant contribute to the achievement of results.

scholarly journals Public space: an exhibition of photography and video

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Franchi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Space ◽  
General Public ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Unrestricted Access ◽  
Private Corporations ◽  
The Public Sphere

Public Space is a photographic and video project examining the relationship between the public sphere and private corporations. The project explores various sites throughout Toronto and New York that are on private property but have been built with the intention of allowing the general public to have unrestricted access to these areas. These spaces are referred to as Privately Owned Public Space or “POPS”. The goal of the project is to question and document, through photographic and video practice, these spaces within the urban environment and to challenge others to consider whether these spaces are effective in achieving their intended use and if they are truly accessible to the general public. Loss of the public space is an ongoing issue that faces cities and developers often receive concessions to bylaw zoning requirements in exchange for incorporating POPS. This thesis project is a personal exploration of how these spaces are changing the urban environments of North American cities in the twenty first century.

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