Rebel Cities: Radical Municipalism
Rebel Cities: Radical Municipalism
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:
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Rojava, Northern Syria
- Chiapas, Mexico
- Warsaw, Poland
- Bologna, Italy
- Jackson, Mississippi
- Athens, Greece
- New York City, New York & Warsaw, Poland
- Reykjavík, Iceland
- Rosario, Argentina
- Newham, UK
- Valparaiso, Chile
- Porto Alegre, Brazil; Greensboro, North Carolina
- Montevideo, Uruguay
- Communes, Venezuela
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Goma, DR Congo
- Jemna, Tunisia
- Gdansk, Poland
- Dakur, Senegal
- Mumbai, India
- Phan Ri Cua & Binh Thuan, Vietnam
- Seikatsu, Japan
- Catalonia, Spain
- Barcelona, Spain
- Denmark and Scotland
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Thanks, this looks great! I heard last year that Łódź, Poland was looking to do some interesting things across the city, too.