Enabling Urban Alternatives

Jens Kaae Fisker is a post-doctoral fellow with the Danish Centre for Rural Research at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.Letizia Chiappini is a PhD candidate in Urban Studies (UrbEur Doctorate) at the University of Milano Bicocca, Italy, and in the Geographies of Globalization research group at the University of Amsterdam (joint doctorate), The Netherlands.Lee Pugalis is Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.Antonella Bruzzese is Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where she teaches and does research and consultancy activities.

• 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.