ABSTRACT
The mayor of Transitional Park, according to Chris Hedges, ran the tent city like a military encampment. Tent City is less a single location than a nomadic but constant phenomenon, a shifting blue-tarped shadow to the glass and steel American metropolis. And the historical geography of tent city is replete with such attempts and corralling and containing the homeless. Tents must be shored up against wind and rain. Sacramento's Tent City was duly closed at the end of March 2009 and some 200 homeless people not all of them Tent City residents moved to the winter shelter at the fairgrounds. Interstitial space in Nashville has served as a safe haven as the tent city's population has grown during the economic crisis; the city has decided not to raze it, but to monitor it and to put case management services around these people to help move them out of homelessness.
