EAN: 9781781687864

THE AUTONOMOUS CITY - ALEXANDER VASUDEVAN KARTO...

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the cityThe 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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