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"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 housingfrom Copenhagen's Freetown Christiana to the squats of the Lower East Sideas 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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Book category Books in German Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft Medien, Kommunikation Buchhandel, Bibliothekswesen

• Full title: Autonomous City
• Subtitle: A History of Urban Squatting
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9781839767937
• ISBN: 1839767936
• ID: 38993063
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Weight: 316 g
• Dimensions: 139 × 210 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. January 2023

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