Urban Activism in Western Europe from the 1950s to the 1980s

Urban Activism in Western Europe from the 1950s to the 1980s

Verlaan, Tim; Wicke, Christian

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2024

205

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9783031576416

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Chapter 1: Introduction: Urban Activism in Western European Cities from the 1950s to the 1980s.- Chapter 2: Provocations at the limits of urbanity: historical perspectives on Cold-War urban social movements.- Chapter 3: The Magic Centre: Sociocultural Critiques on Urban Redevelopment in Amsterdam 1965-1970.- Chapter 4: Travelling barricades: Inter-urban squatter networks during the early 1980s.- Chapter 5: Transcending the Local: World Shops and the Politics of Place, 1969-1988.- Chapter 6: Contested Neighbourhoods of Arrival: Migration and Conflicts over Urban Space in the 1970s in Hamburg.- Chapter 7: Let's Take the City: Turin's Urban Movement, 1968-1975.- Chapter 8: Fighting for the City at the Neighbourhood Scale: the Comitati di Quartiere in 1970s Rome.- Chapter 9: The Castlemilk Claimants Union and local community activism on the urban fringe in Glasgow during the 1970s.- Chapter 10: In Defence of a Coalfield Community: Urban Protest in 1950s Wales.- Chapter 11: A Petit Bourgeois Urban Social Movement? The Case of Britain's National Union of Small Shopkeepers.
post-war Europe;Urban activism;Western Europe;Cities;Gentrification;Urban democracy;Social movements;local histories;collective action;Mobilisation;Industrialisation;Welfare;Protest;Labour;Social justice;Urban change;Social sciences;Class;Democratization;Long 1970s