Rights to Public Space
In Chapter 3 I develop the concepts of belonging and primitive property. I understand belonging as working in two ways. The first way is subject–object belonging, upon which standard ownership models are based: subjects possess objects. The second way is
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Sig Langegger
Rights to Public Space
Sig Langegger
Rights to Public Space Law, Culture, and Gentrification in the American West
Sig Langegger Akita International University Akita City, Akita, Japan
ISBN 978-3-319-41176-7 ISBN 978-3-319-41177-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41177-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016957374 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover design by Samantha Johnson Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
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Preface: Place, Territory, and Ethnography
This is a book about a specific locality (the neighborhood of Highland), a place (the Northside), and various regimes of property in North Denver. I am a born and bred Coloradan with many years of residency in North Denver; consequently, the pages that follow grew out of many decades of first-hand observation of changes to Denver’s built and social environments, followed by two years of concerted ethnographic fieldwork in North Denver. When I began, the key question driving my research was this: As gentrification processes accelerate, how do newcomers become solidly in-place while longtime residents often become hopelessly out-of- place in public spaces (cf. Cresswell, 1996)? As my research progressed, it became clear that I needed to change the directionality of this question. Instead of asking how public spaces change as Highland gentrified, I began to understand the agency of Highland’s public space. Put another way, I began to ask if changes made to specific public spaces worked to advance gentrification. To communicate his perspectives of some of these public spaces, real estate developer Paul Tamburello suggested I interview him while he drove me around Highland. During our drive, he pointed out
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