Resisting Redevelopment

Eleonora Pasotti is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Political Branding in Cities, (Cambridge, 2009).

• Part I. Setting the Comparison: 1. Introduction; 2. Explaining protest against urban redevelopment; 3. Research design and overview of results; 4. Aspiring global cities; Part II. Explaining Mobilization: 5. Experiential tools and networks; 6. Squatting, experiential tools, and protest legacies; 7. Judicial resistance, experiential tools, and protest legacies; 8. Protest with high union support: Buenos Aires; Part III. Explaining Impact: 9. Council allies and partisan alignments; 10. Shaping redevelopment in public housing estates; 11. Militancy with a twist: fighting art to deter displacement in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles; 12. Conclusion; Appendix 1. Qualitative comparative analysis; Appendix 2. Partisan alignments; Bibliography; Index.

'Nearly forty years ago, Manual Castells argued that the central arena of class conflict had moved from the factory floor to urban neighborhoods. Since then, the frequency and intensity of urban development struggles has only increased. And yet, the insights of urbanists and social movement scholars have rarely been integrated and brought to bear on the study of development struggles. Pasotti's groundbreaking book goes a long way toward remedying this problem. Hers is not simply a theoretical contribution, but arguably the best comparative study of urban development struggles conducted to date.' Doug McAdam, Stanford University