ABSTRACT
The Politicization of Urban Space Property rights, for too long, have been the exclusive domain of the Right, configured in restrictive and antisocial ways. Reclaiming the commons, then, requires a reclamation of language. In order to challenge the material and ideological forces that feed into the dromocratic city of movement and change and, in the process, produce alternative foundations for a city of drive, one must choose the most appropriate social arenas for articulating and forwarding one's challenge. A formal-political arena for challenging existing political arrangements is the legal sphere. Pursuing political change via legal challenges has proven, in many cases, a much more effective strategy than electoral politics. Some of the most important political developments, whether one agrees with them or not, have been realized by judicial decree the consequences of Supreme Court decisions being the most paradigmatic. Staeheli and Mitchell provide a good example of such an outcome pertinent to urban space.
