Squatting London

'Timely and urgent ... challenges how we come to think about property and homeownership while reminding us that there are other ways of inhabiting and transforming the city' Alexander Vasudevan, author of The Autonomous City'The generative power of squatting lies at the core of Burgum's beautiful book' Michele Lancione, author of For a Liberatory Politics of Home'Homes without people, people without homes. This book demonstrates that squatting is not just the correction of this unfair mathematics, but also the creation of collectivity in a context of dispossession' Raquel Rolnik, author of Urb an Warfare'Who deserves space? Who is entitled to home? In a powerful and subversive account, Sam Burgum opens up the political space of the city as he takes us inside London's squats' Nicholas Blomley, Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser UniversitySquatting in London has a rich and diverse history. Today, squatters live a marginalised and criminalised existence, yet they persist. Behind the...