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This book examines the active role of urban citizens in
constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance
towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to
encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and
other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The collection of
narratives presented here brings together research from ten
different Asian cities and re-theorises the city from the
perspective of ordinary people facing moments of crisis,
contestations, and cooperative quests to create alternative spaces
to those being produced under prevailing urban processes. The
chapters accent the exercise of human agency through daily
practices in the production of urban space and the intention is not
one of creating a romantic or utopian vision of what a city "by and
for the people" ought to be. Rather, it is to place people in the
centre as mediators of city-making with discontents about current
conditions and desires for a better life.
What is a Garden City? How do you become one? This book draws on
the history of the garden city movement and the experiences of
Letchworth - the first Garden City - and combines these with
contemporary international experiences and good practices to
propose a manifesto for future garden cities. It defines a Garden
City as a place that brings together the best elements of town and
country through the implementation of 12 core principles. Written
by Philip Ross, former Mayor of Letchworth Garden City and Prof.
Yves Cabannes, Chair of the Development Planning at DPU at
University College London. Foreword by Rod Hackney, former
President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Postscript
by John Emmeus Davis, former Dean, National Community Land Trust
Academy, USA
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