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Insurgent Urbanisms are often seen as spontaneous, grassroots responses to the inequities embedded in urban policies, projects, and systems. Through field research and firsthand activism, this book reveals how insurgencies not only resist but actively reshape urban orders, built environments, and public landscapes.
List of contents
Foreword Preface 1. Introduction: Insurgent Urbanisms
Part 1. Origins: Insurgency and Urban Housing 2. Between local initiatives and policy responses: The Chilean experience of rental housing 3. Between Minimum Space and Maximum Profitability: New Forms of Residential Precarity in Rental Housing in Chile 4. From Utopia to Vernacular: Social Housing, Informality, and Right to the City in Guayaquil, Ecuador 5. Housing struggles and organizing in the wake of financialization in Mexico 6. Other Schools: Educational Infrastructures on São Paulo's Peripheries 7. A Brief Genealogy of Peripheral Insurgencies in São Paulo, Brazil
Part 2. Transformations: Insurgency and Knowledge Co-Construction 8. Faith-Based Organizations: A Pathway to Insurgent Planning in Seattle? 9. Community counter-mapping for urban upgrading in Fortaleza, Brazil 10. Attempts at Homogenization, Hybridization, and Contestation at the México/United States borderlands 11. 'Socially charged possibilities': Are political-spatial formulations in São Paulo reflective of a right to the city? 12. Affordable but Unhealthy: A Partial Right to the City in South Texas informal subdivisions
Part 3. Evolutions: Insurgency and Environmental Justice 13. From Environmental Criminalization to Insurgent Environmental Justice: Occupying And Holding Ground In São Paulo's Southern Periphery 14. Balancing Access and Regenerating Habitats: Towards a Socio-Ecological Integration in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo Delta 15. Designing a New City Place: Green Infrastructure on the U.S.-Mexico Border 16. From infrastructure to environmental justice: The case of a multiracial unincorporated community in North Texas 17. Resisting Colonialismo Ambiental and Colonialismo Desastre: The Case of Casa Pueblo in Puerto Rico 18. Reframing Waller Creek: Landscape as an agent of urban change 19. Conclusion: American Urbanism After a Right to the City
About the author
Kristine Stiphany is an assistant professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo and the Director of the Design for Resilient Environments Lab. Her work examines the physical, social, and environmental contributions of housing to urbanism, with a particular focus on informal settlements in Latin America and along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Edna Ely-Ledesma is an assistant professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Director of the Kaufman Lab for the Study and Design of Food Systems and Marketplaces. Her research, teaching, and mentoring focuses on understanding the development of the smart, green, and just 21st century city.
