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List of contents
Acknowledgement
Introduction
1. Shrinking Democracy and Urban Resistance: Toward an Emancipatory Politics of Public Space
Jeffrey Hou and Sabine Knierbein
Part I. Mobilizing: Taking to the Streets!
2. Between Street and Home: Mobility, Housing, and the 2013 Demonstrations in Brazil
Luciana da Silva Andrade and João Paulo Huguenin
3. San Francisco’s Tech-led Gentrification: Public Space, Protest, and the Urban Commons
Manissa M. Maharawal
4. Reconfiguring the Public through Housing Rights Struggles in Spain
Melissa García-Lamarca
5. Urban Resistance and Its Expression in Public Space: New Demands and Shared Meanings in Argentina
Paula Rosa and Regina Vidosa
Part 2. Reclaiming: From Public Space to the Political
6. Reclaiming Public Space Movement in Hong Kong: From Occupy Queen’s Pier to the Umbrella Movement
Yun-Chung Chen and Mirana M. Szeto
7. Occupy Gezi Park: the Never-ending Search for Democracy, Public Space and Alternative City-making
Burcu Yiğit Turan
8. The Right to the Sidewalk: the Struggle over Broken Windows Policing, Young People, and NYC Streets
Caitlin Cahill, Brett G. Stoudt, Amanda Matles, Kim Belmonte, Selma Djokovic, Jose Lopez, Adilka Pimentel, María Elena Torre, and Darian X.
9. Leveling the Playfield: Urban Movement in the Strategic Action Field of Urban Policy in Poland
Anna Domaradzka
Part 3. Negotiating: Urban Resistance and Emerging (Counter) Publics
10. Athens’ Syntagma Square Re-loaded: From Staging Disagreement Towards Instituting Democratic Spaces
Maria Kaika and Lazaros Karaliotas
11. Democracy, Occupy Legislature and Taiwan´s Sunflower Movement
Ketty W. Chen
12. Shifting Struggles over Public Space and Public Goods in Berlin: Urban Activism between Protest and Participation
Henrik Lebuhn
13. Occupied Oakland, Past and Present: Land Action on the New Urban Frontier
Marcus Owens and Christina Antiporda
Part 4. Contesting: Against Backlashes, Criminalization, Cooptation and Anti-Pluralism
14. Operation 1DMX and the Mexico City Commune: The Right to the City Beyond the Rule of Law in Public Spaces
Silvano De la Llata Gonzalez
15. Public Space in a Parallel Universe: Conflict, Coexistence and Co-optation between Alternative Urbanisms and the Neoliberalizing City
Elina Kränzle
16. Miyashita Park, Tokyo: Contested Visions of Public Space in Contemporary Urban Japan
Christian Dimmer
17. Worlded Resistance as ‘Alter’ Politics: Train of Hope and the Protest against the Akademikerball in Vienna
Sabine Knierbein and Angelika Gabauer
Conclusions
18. City Unsilenced: Spatial Grounds of Radical Democratization
Sabine Knierbein and Jeffrey Hou
Note on Contributors
Index
