City unsilenced: urban resistance and public space in the age of shrinking democracy./ Edited by Jeffrey Hou and Sabine Knierbein

Acknowledgement Introduction 1. Shrinking Democracy and Urban Resistance: Toward an Emancipatory Politics of Public SpaceJeffrey Hou and Sabine Knierbein Part I. Mobilizing: Taking to the Streets! 2. Between Street and Home: Mobility, Housing, and the 2013 Demonstrations in BrazilLuciana da Silva Andrade and Joao Paulo Huguenin3. San Francisco's Tech-led Gentrification: Public Space, Protest, and the Urban Commons Manissa M. Maharawal 4. Reconfiguring the Public through Housing Rights Struggles in Spain Melissa Garcia-Lamarca 5. Urban Resistance and Its Expression in Public Space: New Demands and Shared Meanings in Argentina Paula Rosa and Regina Vidosa Part 2. Reclaiming: From Public Space to the Political 6. Reclaiming Public Space Movement in Hong Kong: From Occupy Queen's Pier to the Umbrella Movement Yun-Chung Chen and Mirana M. Szeto 7. Occupy Gezi Park: the Never-ending Search for Democracy, Public Space and Alternative City-making Burcu Yigit Turan 8. The Right to the Sidewalk: the Struggle over Broken Windows Policing, Young People, and NYC Streets Caitlin Cahill, Brett G. Stoudt, Amanda Matles, Kim Belmonte, Selma Djokovic, Jose Lopez, Adilka Pimentel, Maria Elena Torre, and Darian X.9. Leveling the Playfield: Urban Movement in the Strategic Action Field of Urban Policy in Poland Anna Domaradzka Part 3. Negotiating: Urban Resistance and Emerging (Counter) Publics 10. Athens' Syntagma Square Re-loaded: From Staging Disagreement Towards Instituting Democratic Spaces Maria Kaika and Lazaros Karaliotas 11. Democracy, Occupy Legislature and Taiwans Sunflower Movement Ketty W. Chen 12. Shifting Struggles over Public Space and Public Goods in Berlin: Urban Activism between Protest and Participation Henrik Lebuhn 13. Occupied Oakland, Past and Present: Land Action on the New Urban Frontier Marcus Owens and Christina Antiporda Part 4. Contesting: Against Backlashes, Criminalization, Cooptation and Anti-Pluralism 14. Operation 1DMX and the Mexico City Commune: The Right to the City Beyond the Rule of Law in Public Spaces Silvano De la Llata Gonzalez 15. Public Space in a Parallel Universe: Conflict, Coexistence and Co-optation between Alternative Urbanisms and the Neoliberalizing City Elina Kranzle 16. Miyashita Park, Tokyo: Contested Visions of Public Space in Contemporary Urban Japan Christian Dimmer 17. Worlded Resistance as 'Alter' Politics: Train of Hope and the Protest against the Akademikerball in ViennaSabine Knierbein and Angelika Gabauer Conclusions 18. City Unsilenced: Spatial Grounds of Radical Democratization Sabine Knierbein and Jeffrey Hou Note on Contributors Index