Urban Activism in Western Europe from the 1950s to the 1980s

Tim Verlaan is Assistant Professor of Urban History at the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History in the Netherlands. He is an Associate Editor at Urban History and a founding member of Failed Architecture.Christian Wicke is Assistant Professor of Political History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is founding chair of the working group ‘Memory & Deindustrialisation’ within the European Labour History Network. Christian has published several academic books, including Deindustrialisation in Twentieth- Century Europe (Palgrave, 2022).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Urban Activism in Western European Cities from the 1950s to the 1980s.- Chapter 2: Provocations at the limits of urbanity: historical perspectives on Cold-War urban social movements.- Chapter 3: The Magic Centre: Sociocultural Critiques on Urban Redevelopment in Amsterdam 1965-1970.- Chapter 4: Travelling barricades: Inter-urban squatter networks during the early 1980s.- Chapter 5: Transcending the Local: World Shops and the Politics of Place, 1969-1988.- Chapter 6: Contested Neighbourhoods of Arrival: Migration and Conflicts over Urban Space in the 1970s in Hamburg.- Chapter 7: Let's Take the City: Turin's Urban Movement, 1968-1975.- Chapter 8: Fighting for the City at the Neighbourhood Scale: the Comitati di Quartiere in 1970s Rome.- Chapter 9: The Castlemilk Claimants Union and local community activism on the urban fringe in Glasgow during the 1970s.- Chapter 10: In Defence of a Coalfield Community: Urban Protest in 1950s Wales.- Chapter 11: A Petit Bourgeois Urban Social Movement? The Case of Britain’s National Union of Small Shopkeepers.