Rights to the neoliberal city: The case of urban land squatting in ‘creative’ Berlin

Territory, Politics, Governance

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 173-193

  Van Schipstal, Inge L M ^a   Nicholls, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Berlin; Creative city; Legitimation strategy; Political geography; Right to the city; Social movements; Urban land squatting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971452276     PISSN: 21622671     EISSN: 2162268X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2014.902324     Document Type: Article

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