How to Be an Anticapitalist City

Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies at the University of Sheffield.Beth Perry is Professor of Urban Epistemics and Director of the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield. Jonathan Silver is Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield.

• 1. Out of the Money Machine – Rowland Atkinson, Beth Perry, Jon Silver2. Seeing Democracy like an Anticapitalist City - Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch3. New Municipalism Experiences and the Anticapitalist City: Evidence from the UK, Spain, Argentina, Brazil and Chile - Gabriel Silvestre, Newcastle University4. What Kind of Statecraft Might Anticapitalists Demand? Possibilities for Governing Socially Embedded Waste Infrastructure in South Africa - Kathleen Stokes and Mary Lawhon5. Anticapitalist Urban Politics: Interrogating the past to Think About the Future - Allan Cochrane6. Cities Against the Super-Rich - Rowland Atkinson, Hang Kei Ho and Sharda Rozena7. Using Capitalism’s Tools Against Itself: Creating a New Urban Commons Through Self-Renovating Neighbourhoods- Jess Steele8. Race and the Post-Capitalist City: Invisible Walls - Rex McKenzie and Zakiya McKenzie9. Policing the Anticapitalist City - SJ Cooper-Knock and Kamau Wairuri10. ‘Struggles Within, For, and Against: Exploring Tenant Organising in UK Social Housing’ - Nick Clare, Joe Kearsey, Shaun French11. Moving Towards Anticapitalist, Anti-Ableist Cities - Amro Yaghi and Antonios Ktenidis12. Walking the Anticapitalist City Into Being - Morag Rose13. Urban Gardening and the Seeds of Post-Capitalism - Owain Hanmer14. Urban Growing: Escaping Into the Anticapitalist City - Helen Traill15. Towards a Less Capitalist City for Children and Families - Karen Laing, Claire Rodgerson and Liz Todd16. Can Primary Schools Be Anticapitalist? - Beth Perry and Catherine Malpass17. Recoding the Anticapitalist City - Beth Perry, Rowland Atkinson and Jon Silver

‘At a time when we desperately need viable options to realise positive urban futures, this invaluable book provides much needed ideas on practical ways to energize progressive social democratic action.’ Loretta Lees, Boston University