Hossein Sadri, an academic, activist, architect, permaculture designer and urbanist, is teaching contemporary challenges in architecture at Coventry University and Girne American University. His fields of research include deurbanization, future cities, and design of socio-ecological and ethical habitats.Senem Zeybekoglu, an academic, architect, passivhaus designer, permaculture designer, co-founder of de-urban design studio and director of Ecodemia: An Ethical and Socio-Ecological Academia, is a full professor at Girne American University.

• Part 1: Cities and Capitalism 1. Cities Without Capital: A Systemic Approach 2. Cities and Subjectivity Within and Against Capitalism 3. Can Urbanization Reduce Inequality and Limit Climate Change? 4. Tent City Urbanism Part 2: Cities Against Capitalism 5. Transition Design as a Strategy for Addressing Urban Wicked Problems 6. Transition Pioneers: Cultural Currents and Social Movements of Our Time That "Preveal" the Future Post-Capitalist City 7. Urban Commons: Toward a Better Understanding of the Potentials and Pitfalls of Self-Organized Projects 8. Counteracting the Negative Effects of Real Estate-Driven Urbanism + Empowering the Self-Constructed City Part 3: Cities Without Capitalism 9. What Will a Non-capitalist City Look Like? 10. Towards Democratic and Ecological Cities 11. The Coming Revolution of Peer Production and the Synthetisation of the Urban and Rural: The Solution of the Contradiction between City and the Country

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