Take Back Mokum: Squatting and the Housing Struggle in Amsterdam is a frontline document of Amsterdam's housing movement, assembling the tactics, histories, and radical thinking of activists and collectives who refuse to cede the city to gentrification and speculation.
About This Book
Amsterdam's housing crisis is not a natural disaster — it is the product of policy choices, and Take Back Mokum treats it as such. Compiled from an activist perspective, this substantial collection brings together essays, interviews, and graphic stories from a wide range of collectives and individuals embedded in the city's struggle for the right to the city. It is not a spectator's account. The book addresses squatting, rent strikes, and neighbourhood resistance to gentrification as living practices, not historical curiosities. For urban designers, housing advocates, and anyone working at the intersection of spatial justice and the built environment, it is both a resource and a provocation to act.
Key Features
- 352 pages of essays, interviews, graphic stories, and activist documentation
- Published by Spookstad
What You'll Discover
- Practical frameworks for squatting and direct action, including how to organise a rent strike and occupy vacant buildings
- How grassroots collectives across Amsterdam are constructing collective alternatives to market-driven housing
- The theoretical and political underpinnings of the right to the city, articulated through lived experience rather than academic distance
- Strategies for resisting gentrification at the neighbourhood scale, drawn from multiple activist traditions and community contexts
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352
- Dimensions: 14 x 21 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789083453200
- Publisher: Spookstad
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Urban designers, housing researchers, spatial justice advocates, architecture students engaged with social housing and city politics, and activists working in tenant organising or anti-gentrification movements.