Alexander Vasudevan: 2 books
Metropolitan Preoccupations
The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest.
Focuses on the everyday and...
The Autonomous City
A History of Urban Squatting
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
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,...