urban planning
Murdering the dead: Amadeo Bordiga on capitalism and other disasters - Antagonism
Antagonism's introduction to a collection of articles by Amadeo Bordiga, looking at how capitalism both exacerbates, and creates, supposedly 'natural' disasters.
Capitalism and other disasters
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.
Spatial Deconcentration in D.C. - Midnight Notes
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(?).
Cities and Insurrections - Eric J. Hobsbawm
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).
The housing question
Aufheben's incredibly detailed and comprehensive history and analysis of housing and the working class in UK.
Introduction
For the vast majority of people living in a capitalist society housing is an ever-present concern.
Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism
1. NOTHINGNESS OF URBANISM AND NOTHINGNESS OF THE SPECTACLE
