Enabling Urban Alternatives Crises, Contestation, and Cooperation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fisker, Jens Kaae (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Chiappini, Letizia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pugalis, Lee (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bruzzese, Antonella (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Sociology, Urban.; Human geography.; Urban geography.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Human Geography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Urbanism.

This book asks how thinking, governing, performing, and producing the urban differently can assist in enabling the creation of alternative urban futures. It is a timely response to the ongoing crises and pressing challenges that inhabitants of cities, towns, and villages worldwide are faced with in...

Table of Contents:

• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1 Introducing Urban Alternatives
• PART 1 THINKING THE URBAN DIFFERENTLY
• Chapter 2 'Children of the Freeway': Overcoming Structure and Restriction in the Pursuit of Alternative Space
• Chapter 3 Reimagined Strategic Terrains of Urban Politics: Enabling Alternative Urban Futures
• Chapter 4 Spatial Dissensus: Spatial Self-Organisation at Wards Corner
• PART 2 GOVERNING THE URBAN DIFFERENTLY
• Chapter 5 Temporary Use: Sliding into Informality or Fostering Democratic Experimentation?
• Chapter 6 Alternative Spaces of Governance: Mobilising New Cultural Politics in Berlin
• Chapter 7 The Game of Participation in Amsterdam East: An Alternative to the Neoliberal or a Neoliberal Alternative?
• PART 3 PERFORMING AND PRODUCING THE URBAN DIFFERENTLY
• Chapter 8 Urban Alternatives Through Cooperation: Autonomous Geographies and Recreational Running in Sofia, Bulgaria
• Chapter 9 Alternative Spatial Styles: An Exploration of Sociospatial Youth Culture in Turin, Italy
• Chapter 10 Space and Temporality of Urban Alternatives: Lessons Learnt From Milanese Cases of Self-Organised Reappropriation of Abandoned Urban Spaces
• Chapter 11 Carving Enclaves of Alternative Urbanisms in Hong Kong
• Chapter 12 The Production of Space by an Esoteric Spiritual Community: The Case of Damanhur, Italy
• CONCLUSION
• Chapter 13 Enabling Alternative Urban Futures.