Full Description
Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confronted with. Labour markets are changing rapidly, the availability of affordable housing is under intensifying pressure, and public spaces have become battlegrounds of urban politics.
This edited collection brings together contributors in order to spark an international dialogue about the production of alternative urban spaces through a threefold exploration of alternative spaces of work, dwelling, and public life. Seeking out and examining existing alternative urban spaces, the authors identify the elements that provide opportunities to create radically different futures for the world's urban spaces. This volume is the culmination of an international search for alternative practices to dominant modes of capitalist urbanisation, bringing together interdisciplinary, empirically grounded chapters from hot spots in disparate cities around the world.
Offering a multidisciplinary perspective, The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces will be of great interest to academics working across the fields of urban sociology, human geography, anthropology, political science, and urban planning. It will also be indispensable to any postgraduate students engaged in urban and regional studies.
Contents
1 Conceptualising the production of alternative urban spaces PART 1 Alternative urban spaces of work, exchange, and consumption 2 The production of rurbal space: alternative food provisioning in Denmark 3 Framing alternative urban spaces in unstable contexts: a view from Beirut 4 New workspaces in Milan and Berlin: coworking spaces between defensive strategies and transformative potential 5 Deus ex machina: makerspaces in Milan and their transformative potential PART 2 Alternative urban spaces of dwelling 6 Producing refugee spaces: disruptive spatial practice and the everyday in Cairo 7 The struggle for the right to housing in Spain 8 The production of slums: old Fadama as an alternative space of urban dwelling 9 In-between the planned grid: kothi sexuality, domesticity, and urban interstitiality in Chandigarh, India PART 3 Alternative urban spaces of public life 10 Reclaiming democratic (public) spaces through music: the case of Viaduto Santa Tereza in Belo Horizonte, Brazil 11 Alternative spaces emerging from the Gezi protests: from resistance to alternatives 12 Citizen-led micro-regeneration: case studies of civic crowdfunding in London and Milan 13 An international dialogue on the production of alternative urban spaces
