Names: Hou, Jeffrey, 1967–editor.| Knierbein, Sabine, 1977–editor. Title: City unsilenced:
urban resistance and public space in the age of shrinking democracy/edited by Jeffrey Hou …

The insufficient access to housing and the commercialization of public space are most
problematic aspects of urban development in Poland. As we witness the effects of …

In recent years, many Polish cities have become the sites where a new urban movement
emerges, shaped in the meeting between the engagement of neighborhood activists around …

This chapter explains how the evolution of the social mobilization has affected changes in
the physical urban environment as well as a shift in the political field of urban policy. The …

Preface xix hoping that things get better without any true guidance. These are areas without
direction. Areas need effective leadership if they are to become livable in the eyes of its …

The category of the right to the city, conceptualized over five decades ago by the French
Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre, is currently experiencing its second life …

This book explores the changing approaches to urban common good in Central and Eastern
Europe after 1989. The question of common good is fundamental to urban living; however …

Twenty-five years after the return of democracy and the beginning of basing the country's
economy on neoliberal developmental paradigm, Poland adopted the regulations regarding …

This article is part of ethnographic research which took place between 2012 and 2014 for a
PhD thesis on the legacy of Euro 2012 in Poznan, one of Poland's four host cities for the …

This book looks at the UEFA European Championship (Euro 2012) as both a crowning
achievement of, and a way to sustain, the urban entrepreneurial strategy of Poznań, Poland …