Protests Beyond the Plaza: Everyday Spaces, Urban Morphologies, and Strategies [Paperback]

Kateryna Malaia is an architectural historian and educator at Kharkiv School of Architecture and the University of Utah. She researches housing under pressure and in times of change. Her first book, Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room was published in 2023. Her book Mass Housing in Ukraine (with Philipp Meuser) was published in September 2024.

Nathan Mark Hutson is an urban planner and currently serves as a Visiting Professor of Urban Studies and Postwar Reconstruction at the Kyiv School of Economics. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, is a fellow?of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and is an active member of the Ro3kvit Coalition for Ukraine and the American Planning Association's Ukraine Rebuilding Action Group.

Introduction: Beyond the Plaza  1. Kyiv: Places of Revolution, 2013-2014  2. Urban Form, Social Control, and Resistance in Belarus  3. Protesting Underground: SADDs Protests in Seoul Metro Stations  4. Urban Insurgencies: Forms of Solidarity in Beiruts Central District  5. Shifting Landscapes of Digital and Urban Dissent in Tehran: Dynamics of Neighborhood Resistance in the Screen Age  6. From Alternative Protest Tactics to the Digital Infrastructure of Resistance in Myanmar  7. Racial Territoriality and Protest  8. A Tale of Two Urban Refuges in Spain: How a Daily Rhythm Sustains Durable Rebellion

This volume examines major urban protests across Ukraine, Belarus, Myanmar, Lebanon, Spain, the U.S., South Korea, and Iran, exploring their evolution as whole-society movements. It highlights how urban environments shape resistance, blending physical and virtual tools, and will interest experts in urban studies, history, and politics.

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