Index.

Introduction --
Conflict in the City Enrico Gualini, Marco Allegra and Joao Morais Mourato --
1 Theorical Perspectives: Policing, Contention and Insurgent Pratices --
The Institutional Framework of Urban Struggles: Governance and Contention in Santiago de Chile Sebastián Ibarra González 38 --
Cycles of Contention and the Planning Process : Agonistic Pluralism and Social Mobilization against Suttgart 21 Enrico Gualini 59 --
Planning in the Face of Conflict in Un Democratic Contexts : :essons from Two Sicilian Municipalities : Daniela De Leo and Francesco Lo Piccolo 80 --
Under Pressure : Invited Participation amidst Planning Conflicts Nazem Tahvilzadeh and Lisa Kings 94 --
Governance Driven Conflict : Policy, Reason of State and Authoritarian Governmentality Hendrik Wagenaar 122 --
2 Expriences : Creativity and Change in Urban Mobilization --
Spatial Conflicts in Catalonia :An Overview of Social Struggles during the Last Decade Helena Cruz Gallach and Liliana Solé Figueras 132 --
The Dark Side of a Trendy Neighborhood: Gentrification and Dispossession in Russafa, the Valencian Soho Luis del Romero Renau and Laura Lara Martin 147 --
Fading Voices : The Increasing Weakness of Housing Mobilizations in Milan Carolina Pacchi and Eleonora Sartori 165 --
Dereliction, Displacement and Distress in a Disappearing Social Housing Estate Joao Queirós 180 --
Born in the Blogosphere, Staged in the Streets: Austerity and Urban Social Movements in Lisbon Margarida Queirós, Ana Rita Roque, Pedro Quintela, Anna Ludovici and Nuno Vitoriano 197 --
Resisting Urban Heritage Redevelopment in Valparaiso, Chile Alessandra Olivi 217 --
In the Name of Inclusion : Citizenship Conflicts in the Redevelopment of Urban Villages in Xian, China Xiaoqing Zhang 233 --
Cultural Centers as Mediators of Local Conflicts : Madrid’s Co Produced Public Spaces Cristina Braschi 251 --
Building Network Governance : Conflict as a Driver for Policy Learning in Portugal Joao Morais Mourato, Lia T. Vasconcelos and Helena Farrall 266 --
Contributors 284 --

Conflicts around urban development and planning issues are an important dimension of contemporary urban politics. Issues of social cohesion and democratic representation become all the more relevant as cities face economic crisis and when local politics tries to meet its challenges with "post-political" responses. The case studies in Conflict in the City , drawn from cities around the world, explore the potential of local planning conflicts to challenge the rhetoric of urban democracy. These conflicts expose some of the key political issues in the contemporary city: the multi-scalar nature of urban policies, the tension between "policing" and "politics," the spatial dimension of protest and social mobilization and the struggle for new forms of citizenship. Conflict in the City attempts to rethink urban development and planning conflicts through a multidisciplinary perspective, and explore how these "local" conflicts can spur broader political mobilizations --