Insurgent Urbanisms in the Americas

Foreword Preface 1. Introduction: Insurgent Urbanisms Part 1. Origins: Insurgency and Urban Housing 2. Between local initiatives and policy responses: The Chilean experience of rental housing 3. Between Minimum Space and Maximum Profitability: New Forms of Residential Precarity in Rental Housing in Chile 4. From Utopia to Vernacular: Social Housing, Informality, and Right to the City in Guayaquil, Ecuador 5. Housing struggles and organizing in the wake of financialization in Mexico 6. Other Schools: Educational Infrastructures on S£o Pauloâs Peripheries 7. A Brief Genealogy of Peripheral Insurgencies in S£o Paulo, Brazil Part 2. Transformations: Insurgency and Knowledge Co-Construction 8. Faith-Based Organizations: A Pathway to Insurgent Planning in Seattle? 9. Community counter-mapping for urban upgrading in Fortaleza, Brazil 10. Attempts at Homogenization, Hybridization, and Contestation at the M©xico/United States borderlands 11. âSocially charged possibilitiesâ: Are political-spatial formulations in S£o Paulo reflective of a right to the city? 12. Affordable but Unhealthy: A Partial Right to the City in South Texas informal subdivisions Part 3. Evolutions: Insurgency and Environmental Justice 13. From Environmental Criminalization to Insurgent Environmental Justice: Occupying And Holding Ground In S£o Paulo's Southern Periphery 14. Balancing Access and Regenerating Habitats: Towards a Socio-Ecological Integration in the Rio Grande/R­o Bravo Delta 15. Designing a New City Place: Green Infrastructure on the U.S.-Mexico Border 16. From infrastructure to environmental justice: The case of a multiracial unincorporated community in North Texas 17. Resisting Colonialismo Ambiental and Colonialismo Desastre: The Case of Casa Pueblo in Puerto Rico 18. Reframing Waller Creek: Landscape as an agent of urban change 19. Conclusion: American Urbanism After a Right to the City