The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting Gareth P. Jones with his 1981 album "The

with his 1981 album "The Pressure Is On

In November 2008

Social cognition researchers look at how we make sense of other people and of ourselves

Boey Kim Cheng

The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting Gareth P. Jones with his 1981 album "TheA surprising radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city. The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting in Europe and North America. Drawing on extensive archival research, it retraces the struggle for housing in cities such as Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, and Vancouver. It looks at the organization of alternative forms of housing from Copenhagen's