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Public Spaces, Marketplaces, and the Constitution: Shopping Malls and the First Amendment

Public Spaces, Marketplaces, and the Constitution: Shopping Malls and the First Amendment

Maniscalco, Anthony

Paperback

Series: Suny American Constitutionalism

Social MovementsUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1438458444
ISBN13: 9781438458441
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2016
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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