{"602013":{"#nid":"602013","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rosenberger Publishes New Book on Homelessness and Design","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe end of 2017 saw the release of Robert Rosenberger\u0026rsquo;s new book, \u003Cem\u003ECallous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless\u003C\/em\u003E, with University of Minnesota Press.\u0026nbsp; The book is a short and polemical critique of the ways that cities design the objects of public spaces to push homeless people out of view.\u0026nbsp; With a focus on everyday public-space objects, like benches, garbage cans, and fences, Rosenberger highlights a pervasive strategy adopted by cities to hide the problem of homelessness through the re-design of public space.\u0026nbsp; He argues that this anti-homeless design trend works in accord with a variety of laws that cities pass to target homeless people, laws which homeless advocates claim make homelessness itself a crime.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe book includes a catalog of many of the design strategies that target homeless behaviors, an analysis of anti-homeless laws, and an exploration of many specific cases, from anti-camping laws, to anti-homeless spiked ledges, to homeless advocacy art projects.\u0026nbsp; To think further about these issues, Rosenberger draws ideas from social theory, political philosophy, phenomenology, and feminist epistemology.\u0026nbsp; This pocket-sized book is written for a widely interdisciplinary audience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESee: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/callous-objects\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/callous-objects\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe book can be read online through the publisher\u0026rsquo;s Manifold project here:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/manifold.umn.edu\/project\/989de0b5-8cc2-4e53-bbd9-98bad8ba3b43\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/manifold.umn.edu\/project\/989de0b5-8cc2-4e53-bbd9-98bad8ba3b43\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor a selection of Rosenberger\u0026rsquo;s previous academic and public writing on the politics of public space see:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00146-016-0674-3\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00146-016-0674-3\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10746-014-9317-1\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10746-014-9317-1\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/08\/trump-tower-and-the-question-of-public-space\/494027\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/08\/trump-tower-and-the-question-of-public-space\/494027\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.creativeloafing.com\/news\/article\/13081526\/the-politics-of-park-benches\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.creativeloafing.com\/news\/article\/13081526\/the-politics-of-park-benches\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Robert Rosenberger\u0027s new book looks at how cities combat homelessness. 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