The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting General Contract Administration has a far greater public

has a far greater public profile

building pro-files and design projects from a range of leading voices

he considers the differences between capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners

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The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written

The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting General Contract Administration has a far greater publicUpdated new edition: A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, and Vancouver. He looks at the organisation of alternative forms of housingfrom Copenhagens Freetown Christiana to