Eleonora Pasotti is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Political Branding in Cities, (Cambridge, 2009).
Part I. Setting the Comparison: 1. Introduction
2. Explaining protest against urban redevelopment
3. Research design and overview of results
4. Aspiring global cities
Part II. Explaining Mobilization: 5. Experiential tools and networks
6. Squatting, experiential tools, and protest legacies
7. Judicial resistance, experiential tools, and protest legacies
8. Protest with high union support: Buenos Aires
Part III. Explaining Impact: 9. Council allies and partisan alignments
10. Shaping redevelopment in public housing estates
11. Militancy with a twist: fighting art to deter displacement in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
12. Conclusion
Appendix 1. Qualitative comparative analysis
Appendix 2. Partisan alignments
Bibliography
Index.