How the Occupy Movement Changed Urban Government
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Professor Kenneth A. Stahl looks at how the "Occupy" protests revived the importance of cities as physical spaces. Stahl sees a the movement a protest against the trend among city governments to cater to "mobile consumers and capital investors" rather than their own citizenry. Is place becoming newly relevant to urban spaces–and was it ever irrelevant?
| "That may have been exactly the point of the protests – to challenge city governments’ policy of catering to mobile capital at all costs." |
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