The autonomous city : a history of urban squatting /

The autonomous city : a history of urban squatting /

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Author / Creator:	Vasudevan, Alex, author.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Verso, 2017. ©2017
Description:	292 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Squatter settlements -- History. Squatter settlements. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11044370

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ISBN:	9781781687864 1781687862 9781781687857 1781687854 9781781687871 9781781687888 1781687889
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"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"--

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