Public Space Unbound

Introduction 1. Space, Emancipation and Post-Political Urbanization Part I Everyday Emancipation. Beyond Utopia, Law and Institutions 2. Amazon Unbound: Utopian Dialectics of Planetary Urbanization 3. Applying a Relational Approach to Political Difference: Strategies of Particularisation and Universalisation in Contesting Urban Development 4. How to Reclaim Mafia-controlled Territory? An Emancipatory Experience in Naples 5. Improvising an Urban Commons of the Streets. Emancipation-from, Emancipation-to and Co-Emancipation Part II Practical Emancipation. On Places, Projects and Events 6. Rupturing, Accreting and Bridging: Everyday Insurgencies and Emancipatory City-making in Asia 7. Post-Political Development and Emancipation: Urban Participatory Projects in Helsinki 8. Urban Events Under the Post-political Condition: (Im)Possibilities for Emancipation in a Small-scale City of Switzerland 9. Emancipatory Research in the Arts: Shift the City - The Temporary Lab of Non | Permanent Space Part III Critical Emancipation. On Romanticisms, Agonism and Liberation 10. Alternative Participatory Planning Practices in the Global South: Learning from Co-production Processes in Informal Communities 11. Revitalising Yeldegirmeni Neighbourhood in Istanbul: Towards an Emancipatory Urban Design in the Landscapes of Neoliberal Urbanism 12. Conflict vs. Consensus: An Emancipatory Understanding of Planning in a Pluralist Society 13. Public Space Activism in Unstable Contexts: Emancipation from Beirut's Post-memory Part IV Active Emancipation. On Influence, Recovery and Hybrid Ownership 14. 'The City Decides!' Political Standstill and Social Movements in Post-industrial Naples 15. Emancipatory Practices of Self-organized Workers in the Context of Neoliberal Policies: IMPA, the Case of a 'Recovered Factory' in Buenos Aires 16. Questioning Urban Commons: Challenges and Potentials in the Post-Democratic Era 17. Hybridising 'Ownership' of Public Space: Framings of Urban Emancipation in Crisis-ridden Thessaloniki Conclusion 18. Public Space Unbound: Emancipatory Praxis and Lived Space