1st Edition

Cities Without Capitalism

Edited By Hossein Sadri, Senem Zeybekoglu Copyright 2022
252 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the interconnections between urbanization and capitalism to examine the current condition of cities due to capitalism. It brings together interdisciplinary insights from leading academics, activists and researchers to envision progressive, anti-capitalist changes for the future of cities. The exploitative nature of capitalist urbanization, as seen in the manifestation of... Read more

Foreward
Peter Marcuse

Part 1: Cities and Capitalism

1. Cities Without Capital: A Systemic Approach
Porus D. Olpadwala

2. Cities and Subjectivity Within and Against Capitalism
Kanishka Goonewardena and Sinead Petrasek

3. Can Urbanization Reduce Inequality and Limit Climate Change?
William W. Goldsmith

4. Tent City Urbanism
Andrew Heben

Part 2: Cities Against Capitalism

5. Transition Design as a Strategy for Addressing Urban Wicked Problems
Gideon Kossoff and Terry Irwin

6. Transition Pioneers: Cultural Currents and Social Movements of Our Time That "Preveal" the Future Post-Capitalist City
Juliana Birnbaum

7. Urban Commons: Toward a Better Understanding of the Potentials and Pitfalls of Self-Organized Projects
Mary H. Dellenbaugh-Losse

8. Counteracting the Negative Effects of Real Estate-Driven Urbanism + Empowering the Self-Constructed City
David Gouverneur

Part 3: Cities Without Capitalism

9. What Will a Non-capitalist City Look Like?
Tom Angotti

10. Towards Democratic and Ecological Cities
Yavor Tarinski

11. The Coming Revolution of Peer Production and the Synthetisation of the Urban and Rural: The Solution of the Contradiction between City and the Country
Jakob Rigi

Biography

Hossein Sadri, an academic, activist, architect, permaculture designer and urbanist, is teaching contemporary challenges in architecture at Coventry University and Girne American University. His fields of research include deurbanization, future cities, and design of socio-ecological and ethical habitats.

Senem Zeybekoglu, an academic, architect, passivhaus designer, permaculture designer, co-founder of de-urban design studio and director of Ecodemia: An Ethical and Socio-Ecological Academia, is a full professor at Girne American University.