Referência: CARR, John. Espulsion from Skateopia: Urban Skateboarding and the Role of Law in Determining Children’s Place in the City. Department of Geography, University of Washington. 2006.
 

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Abstract: Young peoples’ claims upon public space have long posed a paradoxical challenge to the ordering of such “adult” places as the city. On one hand, public groups of young people have long been associated with disorder, crime, and delinquency. On the other hand, children are revered as a population deserving of unique societal protections and prerogatives. This paradoxical challenge to social order finds a particularly disruptive embodiment in the urban skateboarder. The youth, mobility, and visibility of urban skateboarders pose a host of challenges to efforts to regulate and control public places. This paper proposes to explore the evolution of this challenge as a product of legally articulated logics of private property. In short, this paper argues that, in seeking a place for themselves in the city, young urban skaters have transformed skating and the city itself, in response to developments in the legal assertion and regulation of property rights.