Rebel Cities: Radical Municipalism (theanarchistlibrary.org)

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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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[-] theendismeh@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

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

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