1st Edition
The City in Transgression Human Mobility and Resistance in the 21st Century
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Movement
Interview
Civil and Civic
Migratory Fields
Chapter 2 Urban Mobility
Movement to Mobility
Surface Wearing
Indifferent Non-selves
Chapter 3 Indeterminant Occupation
Determinacy of Experience
Opportunities in Space
Discontent with Place
Chapter 4 Ousted Vagrancy
Roaming Where
Loitering How
Unhomely As
Chapter 5 Collective Anarchy
Off the Wall
Rogue Sites
Out of Space
Chapter 6 City in Transgression
Instability of Order
The Radical Turn
Infrastructure Edges
Chapter 7 Unbounded Mobility
Dwelling in Mobility
Fluid Urbanity
Fabricating Mobility
Bibliography
Biography
Benedict Anderson is an independent scholar and practices in design, architecture, and public art. He has worked in many different universities, lectured extensively as an invited speaker, and exhibited in major exhibitions around the world. His previous books for Routledge are Buried City, Unearthing Teufelsberg: Berlin and its Geography of Forgetting (2017) and The City in Geography: Renaturing the Built Environment (2019).
"Although Dr. Anderson sets out to write ‘a succinct account of human mobility and resistance in the 21st century’ (p.1), he has ended up doing much more. Not only has he unveiled a new way of studying cities and mobility, he has also offered much-needed answers on how cities might be reconfigured to better support migrants, their families, and friends. The City in Transgression is a breakthrough in how to study the city and make urban policy for people; not for profit. Here is a welcome transgression against orthodoxy."
—Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Ph.D. Development Studies and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
