ABSTRACT
Collective Anarchy surveys urbanity as off the wall, rogue sites, and out of space spaces of insurgency as a means to establish alternative forms for living. By acknowledging that the homeless, refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants are the new urban explorers of the city, one can identify a precedent for flexible social conditions to prevail and thrive. Their physical adaptations of urban spaces can set the agenda for a transformative mobility in the city. Section one Off the Wall examines how authoritative controls by the political establishment tied to enriching corporations, corruption and subordination through injustice, oppression and imprisonment of dissident opposition and climate change denial are some of the issues that prompt individuals and groups to take to the streets in opposition, civil disobedience, and dissent. Section two Rogues Sites surveys those spaces within the built environment that sit outside normative existing controls. The bandwidth of rogue sites can be extremely broad, from slum districts to gated communities that by default segregate people and divide cities. Section three Out of Space takes the view where demands on space from urban density and infrastructure have brought the city into sharp conflict with global human movement in the 21st century. The occupations of urban sites by refugees and the homeless show a willingness for a renegotiation of the urban transaction of programming space, where resistance to planning brings new spaces into appearance.
