City in Transgression

Benedict Anderson is an independent scholar and practices in design, architecture, and public art. He has worked in many different universities, lectured extensively as an invited speaker, and exhibited in major exhibitions around the world. His previous books for Routledge are Buried City, Unearthing Teufelsberg: Berlin and its Geography of Forgetting (2017) and The City in Geography: Renaturing the Built Environment (2019).

• PrefaceIntroduction Chapter 1 MovementInterviewCivil and Civic Migratory FieldsChapter 2 Urban MobilityMovement to MobilitySurface WearingIndifferent Non-selvesChapter 3 Indeterminant OccupationDeterminacy of ExperienceOpportunities in Space Discontent with PlaceChapter 4 Ousted VagrancyRoaming WhereLoitering HowUnhomely AsChapter 5 Collective Anarchy Off the WallRogue Sites Out of Space Chapter 6 City in TransgressionInstability of Order The Radical TurnInfrastructure EdgesChapter 7 Unbounded MobilityDwelling in MobilityFluid UrbanityFabricating Mobility Bibliography

"Although Dr. Anderson sets out to write ‘a succinct account of human mobility and resistance in the 21st century’ (p.1), he has ended up doing much more. Not only has he unveiled a new way of studying cities and mobility, he has also offered much-needed answers on how cities might be reconfigured to better support migrants, their families, and friends. The City in Transgression is a breakthrough in how to study the city and make urban policy for people; not for profit. Here is a welcome transgression against orthodoxy."—Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Ph.D. Development Studies and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Finland