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The Autonomous City
Alexander Vasudevan
其他書名
A History of Urban Squatting
出版Verso Books, 2023-01-03
主題Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Sociology / UrbanPolitical Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
ISBN18397679369781839767937
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KJVnEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city

The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, and Vancouver. He looks at the organisation of alternative forms of housing—from Copenhagen’s Freetown Christiana to the squats of the Lower East Side—as well as the official response, including the recent criminalisation of squatting, the brutal eviction of squatters and their widespread vilification.

Pictured as a way to reimagine and reclaim the city, squatting offers an alternative to housing insecurity, oppressive property speculation and the negative effects of urban regeneration. We must, more than ever, reanimate and remake the urban environment as a site of radical social transformation.