EAN: 9781839767937

THE AUTONOMOUS CITY - ALEXANDER VASUDEVAN KARTO...

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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