Insurgent Urbanisms are often seen as spontaneous, grassroots responses to the inequities embedded in urban policies, projects, and systems, operating entirely outside the structures of government. But are they truly autonomous? In Insurgent Urbanisms in the Americas, Kristine Stiphany and Edna Ely Ledesma offer a new perspective on the empirics of struggles to design cities that are inclusive and equitable.
From Brazil’s favelas to Ecuador’s barrios, and Puerto Rico’s hurricane-battered shores to the gentrified centers of U.S. cities, there have been radical struggles of the marginalized to challenge and reimagine the norms of urban planning. Over decades, these same struggles have become part of planning itself. Each chapter’s account of insurgency provides empirical detail about how acts of resistance evolve across housing occupations, grassroots knowledge-sharing, ecological revolutions. Stiphany and Ely-Ledesma provide a way of understanding how the marginalized mobilize their sociospatial systems—such as housing, markets, policies, and urban morphology—to participate in the change that is transforming their own communities. Through powerful field research and firsthand activism, contributors reveal how insurgencies not only resist but actively reshape urban orders, built environments, and public landscapes—issuing a compelling call to make urbanism matter.
This book is essential for students and instructors of urban planning and design, Latin American and Hispanic studies, and social justice studies, as well as city planning and urban design practitioners.
Insurgent Urbanisms are often seen as spontaneous, grassroots responses to the inequities embedded in urban policies, projects, and systems. Through field research and firsthand activism, this book reveals how insurgencies not only resist but actively reshape urban orders, built environments, and public landscapes.
Foreword; Preface; Introduction;
1. 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.
Educational Insurgency in São Paulo, Brazil;
7. A Brief Genealogy of
Peripheral Insurgencies in São Paulo, Brazil; Part
2. Iterations: 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 México/United States Borderlands;
11.
"Socially Charged Possibilities": Are Political-Spatial Formulations in São
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 São Paulo's Southern Periphery;
14. Balancing Access and
Regenerating Habitats: Towards a Socio-Ecological Integration in the Rio
Grande/Río 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; Conclusion: Learning from Insurgent Urbanisms;
19. Conclusion:
American Urbanism after a Right to the City
Kristine Stiphany is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo and the Director of the Design for Resilient Environments Lab. Her work examines how the aftereffects of urban redevelopment have created new architectures, landscapes, and building cultures, with a particular focus on Latin America and the U.S.Mexico border.
Edna Ely-Ledesma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Director of the Kaufman Lab for the Study and Design of Food Systems and Marketplaces. Her research, teaching, and mentoring focuses on understanding the development of the smart, green, and just 21st century city.
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