1 Pedestrianism 1
Pedestrianism and police 4
Pedestrianism, people and things 8
Pedestrianism and social justice 11
Overview of contents 14
2 Civic humanism and the sidewalk 17
The sidewalk as political space 18
The sidewalk as civic space 21
The sidewalk as walking space 24
3 Thinking like an engineer 29
Administrative pedestrianism 29
Pervasive pedestrianism 34
The taken for granted 36
4 Producing and policing the sidewalk 38
Sidewalk law 45
Obstruction and encroachments 48
Other sidewalk rationalities 50
5 The history of pedestrianism 57
The invention of the sidewalk 57
The reformist sidewalk 58
Administrative pedestrianism at work 62
The public sidewalk 66
The incomplete sidewalk 69
6 Judicial pedestrianism 73
Introduction 73
The public highway 74
7 Obstructions of justice? 80
Speech, protest and circulation 81
Sidewalks, the homeless and judicial pedestrianism 84
Things and bodies 88
8 Taking a constitutional: circulation, begging and the mobile self 94
Introduction 94
Political pedestrianism 95
Conclusions 103
9 Hidden in plain view 106
Notes 112
Bibliography 120
Index 127