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Rights In Transit: Public Transportation And The "Right To The City" In California's East Bay, Kafui Ablode Attoh
Rights In Transit: Public Transportation And The "Right To The City" In California's East Bay, Kafui Ablode Attoh
Geography and the Environment - Dissertations
In recent years, a number of researchers in geography and in urban studies have taken to the idea of the "right to the city." These scholars have drawn on the idea to frame debates on topics as wide ranging as urban social movements, the regulation of urban public space, to the relationship between cities and citizenship. Implicit in this literature is a conception of the city and of urban space in which political conflict and class struggle are dominating features. This dissertation seeks to add to that discussion by focusing on debates over transit policy in California's East Bay. In …