urban planning

China: riots against police brutality

People in the south-western city of Chongqing fought riot police after a flower-seller was attacked by a policeman.

The rioting took place last weekend. It is currently unclear why the policeman attacked Mr Changming, but he was apparently hospitalised after being beaten with a shovel. His wife brother-in-law and son were also injured.

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11 Jun 2007 by jef costello

Spatial Deconcentration in D.C. - Midnight Notes

Cartoon by Ron Cobb

The story of a covert US Government housing policy - conceived in the aftermath of the 1960s ghetto riots - to remove concentrations of potentially rebellious Blacks and other poor people from the inner city and disperse them in small groups to the suburbs.

Published in 'Midnight Notes', Vol. II, #2, July 1981, MA, USA
Original article first published by the Yulanda Ward Memorial Fund, Washington, 1981(?).

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16 May 2007 by Ret Marut

Cities and Insurrections - Eric J. Hobsbawm

Mai '68, Paris

Hobsbawm discusses the potential and limits of cities as sites of riot and insurrection.

Eric J. Hobsbawm is a well-known English Marxist academic historian. This article is an adaptation of a chapter that was originally published in his book Revolutionaries (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973).

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28 Apr 2007 by Ret Marut

The housing question

Introduction
For the vast majority of people living in a capitalist society housing is an ever-present concern.

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Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism

1. NOTHINGNESS OF URBANISM AND NOTHINGNESS OF THE SPECTACLE

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8 Sep 2005 by libcom
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