1st Edition

Protests Beyond the Plaza Everyday Spaces, Urban Morphologies, and Strategies

Edited By Kateryna Malaia, Nathan M. Hutson Copyright 2026
204 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The chapters in this volume investigate some of the most important urban upheavals in recent history through different political, social and cultural contexts. Through this cross section of case studies from Ukraine, Belarus, Myanmar, Lebanon, Spain, United States, South Korea and Iran, authors envision the future of the successful urban protest as a whole-society movement in which all aspects of... Read more

Beyond the Plaza: Introduction

Kateryna Malaia and Nathan Mark Hutson

1. Kyiv: Places of Revolution, 2013-2014

Kateryna Malaia and Volodymyr Babii

2. Urban Form, Social Control, and Resistance in Belarus

Nathan Mark Hutson

3. Protesting Underground: SADD’s Protests in Seoul Metro Stations

Jieheerah Yun and Seungho Cha

4. Urban Insurgencies: Forms of Solidarity in Beirut’s Central District

May Khalife

5. Shifting Landscapes of Digital and Urban Dissent in Tehran: Dynamics of Neighborhood Resistance in the Screen Age

Vafa Dianati and Asma Mehan

6. From Alternative Protest Tactics to the Digital Infrastructure of Resistance in Myanmar

Hsu Lai Yee, Jeffrey Hou, and Jayde Roberts

7. Racial Territoriality and Protest

Jacquelyn Sawyer

8. A Tale of Two Urban Refuges in Spain: How a Daily Rhythm Sustains Durable Rebellion

Ester Gisbert Alemany, Enrique Nieto, and José Laulhé

Biography

Kateryna Malaia is an architectural historian and educator at Kharkiv School of Architecture and the University of Utah. She researches housing under pressure and in times of change. Her first book, Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room was published in 2023. Her book Mass Housing in Ukraine (with Philipp Meuser) was published in September 2024.

Nathan Mark Hutson is an urban planner and currently serves as a Visiting Professor of Urban Studies and Postwar Reconstruction at the Kyiv School of Economics. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, is a fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and is an active member of the Ro3kvit Coalition for Ukraine and the American Planning Association's Ukraine Rebuilding Action Group.