CONTENTS List of figures vii Contributors .viii Preface and acknowledgments xi 1 Cities for people, not for profit: an introduction 1 Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, and Margit Mayer 2 What is critical urban theory? . 11 Neil Brenner 3 Whose right(s) to what city? 24 Peter Marcuse 4 Henri Lefebvre, the right to the city, and the new metropolitan mainstream 42 Christian Schmid 5 The right to the city in urban social movements 63 Margit Mayer 6 Space and revolution in theory and practice: eight theses 86 Kanishka Goonewardena 7 The praxis of planning and the contributions of critical development studies 102 Katharine N. Rankin 8 Assemblages, actor-networks, and the challenges of critical urban theory 117 Neil Brenner, David J. Madden, and David Wachsmuth 9 The new urban growth ideology of creative cities 138 Stefan Kriitke 10 Critical theory and gray space: mobilization of the colonized 150 Oren Yiftachel 11 Missing Marcuse: on gentrification and displacement 171 Tom Slater 12 An actually existingjust city? The fight for the right to the city in Amsterdam 197 Justus Uitemiark 13 A critical approach to solving the housing problem . 215 Peter Marcuse j 14 Socialist cities, for people or for power? 231 Bruno Fliert in conversation with Peter Marcuse 15 The right to the city: from theory to grassroots alliance 250 Jew Liss 16 What is to be done? And who the hell is going to do it? 264 David Hawey with David Wachsmuth Afterword Peter Marcuse 275 Index 276