Rebel Cities
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Steve Rushton Rebel Cities Radical Municipalism 2018

This is quite a long text, but you don’t need to read the chapters in order and each chapter is on a different urban experiment. It looks at “radical municipalism” or a communities taking back power of their city and rebuilding it into what they want to make of it. The rebel cities are:

  1. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  2. Rojava, Northern Syria
  3. Chiapas, Mexico
  4. Warsaw, Poland
  5. Bologna, Italy
  6. Jackson, Mississippi
  7. Athens, Greece
  8. New York City, New York & Warsaw, Poland
  9. Reykjavík, Iceland
  10. Rosario, Argentina
  11. Newham, UK
  12. Valparaiso, Chile
  13. Porto Alegre, Brazil; Greensboro, North Carolina
  14. Montevideo, Uruguay
  15. Communes, Venezuela
  16. Cape Town, South Africa
  17. Goma, DR Congo
  18. Jemna, Tunisia
  19. Gdansk, Poland
  20. Dakur, Senegal
  21. Mumbai, India
  22. Phan Ri Cua & Binh Thuan, Vietnam
  23. Seikatsu, Japan
  24. Catalonia, Spain
  25. Barcelona, Spain
  26. Denmark and Scotland
  • theendismehEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Thanks, this looks great! I heard last year that Łódź, Poland was looking to do some interesting things across the city, too.