List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Out of Place
Talking Homeless, Walking Poor
Constructing the Homeless, Deconstructing the "Poor"
Academic Segmentation of Homeless Bodies
Boundary Work and "Speaking for Others"
1. Social-Physical Space, Socal Imaginaries, and Homeless Identities
Social Imaginary Significations and Everyday Life
The Production of Space and the Location of Identity in Everyday Life
The "Fixing" of Partial Truths, Difference, Identities, and Bodies in Space
Gendered and Racialized Bodies: the "Other" and Social-Physical Space
Degeneracy, Moral Worth, and the "Scaling of Bodies"
Social-Physical Space, Social Imaginaries, and the City
2. Urban Redevelopment Visions, Social Imaginaries, Polarized Topographies
Economic Restructuring, Downsizing, and Homelessness
City Redevelopment Strategies: Inclusion or Exclusion?
Culture and Images of Redevelopment
Polarized Topographies, Spatial Hierarchies
Producing/Consuming Pleasure Spaces
Producing/Consuming Refuse Spaces
Producing/Consuming Functional Spaces
Zoned and Redeveloped Exclusions and Dispersions
3. Making Pleasure and Refuse: Chicago and San Jose
Chicago
Changing Chicago Visions
Polarized Topographies I: The Near South Side/South Loop
Polarized Topographies II: The Near West Side
San Jose
Problematic Economics
Polarized Topographies: Housing, Race, Redevelopment
Changing San Jose Visions
New Pleasure Spaces: The Guadalupe River Park Project and the Downtown Plan
Exclusive Redevelopment: Dispersing the Poor
4. Authoritative Strategies, Borders, and Homeless Containment
Institutional, Cultural, and Market Exclusions
Homeless Social and Cultural Assimilations
Street and Store: Exclusions and Repressions
Political and Media Displacements
Shelters and Surveillance: Exclusion, Assimilation, and Containment
5. Homeless Mobilizations and Spatial Resistances
The University and Homeless Mobilization: The Student-Homeless Alliance
Community Groups and Homeless Mobilization: Tranquility City
6. Homeless Placemaking, Collective Identity, and Collective Action
Resistant Heterotopias: Site and Community
The Bridge
The Catacombs
Tranquility City
SHA and Hut Dweller Differences from Other Homeless Populations
Collective and Individual Gains
7. Conclusions
Challenging the Disappearance of Jobs, Housing, and Health Care
Challenging City Redevelopment Strategies
Service-Learning: A Pedagogy to End Homelessness?
Individual versus Collective Empowerment
Appendix: San Jose's Housing Shortage
Notes
References
Index