Public spaces, marketplaces, and the constitution

The Resource Public spaces, marketplaces, and the constitution

Label

Public spaces, marketplaces, and the constitution

Statement of responsibility

Anthony Maniscalco

Language

eng

Summary

Examines how the Supreme Court has banished free expression from shopping malls and other public spaces. In spite of their public attractions and millions of visitors, most shopping malls are now off-limits to free speech and expressive activity. The same may be said about many other public spaces and marketplaces in American cities and suburbs, leaving scholars and other observers to wonder where civic engagement is lawfully permitted in the United States. In Public Spaces, Marketplaces, and the Constitution, Anthony Maniscalco draws on key legal decisions, social theory, and urban history to demonstrate that public spaces have been split apart from First Amendment protections, while the expression of political ideas has been excluded from privately owned, publicly accessible malls. Today, the traditional indoor suburban shopping mall, that icon of modern American capitalism and culture, is being replaced by outdoor retail centers. Yet the law and courts have been slow to catch up. Maniscalco argues that scholars, students, and the public must confront these innovations in commercial design and consumer practices, as well as what they portend for contemporary metropolitan America and its civic spaces

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

342.7308/53

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

SUNY series in American Constitutionalism

Target audience

adult

Context

Context of Public spaces, marketplaces, and the constitution

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