Enabling Urban Alternatives: Crises, Contestation, and Cooperation

INTRODUCTION.- Chapter 1 Introducing Urban Alternatives.- PART 1 THINKING THE URBAN DIFFERENTLY.- Chapter 2 'Children of the Freeway': Overcoming Structure and Restriction in the Pursuit of Alternative Space.- Chapter 3 Reimagined Strategic Terrains of Urban Politics: Enabling Alternative Urban Futures.- Chapter 4 Spatial Dissensus: Spatial Self-Organisation at Wards Corner.- PART 2 GOVERNING THE URBAN DIFFERENTLY.- Chapter 5 Temporary Use: Sliding into Informality or Fostering Democratic Experimentation?.- Chapter 6 Alternative Spaces of Governance: Mobilising New Cultural Politics in Berlin.- Chapter 7 The Game of Participation in Amsterdam East: An Alternative to the Neoliberal or a Neoliberal Alternative?.- PART 3 PERFORMING AND PRODUCING THE URBAN DIFFERENTLY.- Chapter 8 Urban Alternatives Through Cooperation: Autonomous Geographies and Recreational Running in Sofia, Bulgaria.- Chapter 9 Alternative Spatial Styles: An Exploration of Sociospatial Youth Culture in Turin, Italy.- Chapter 10 Space and Temporality of Urban Alternatives: Lessons Learnt From Milanese Cases of Self-Organised Reappropriation of Abandoned Urban Spaces.- Chapter 11 Carving Enclaves of Alternative Urbanisms in Hong Kong.- Chapter 12 The Production of Space by an Esoteric Spiritual Community: The Case of Damanhur, Italy.- CONCLUSION.- Chapter 13 Enabling Alternative Urban Futures.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811315302
• ISBN13: 9789811315305
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"