APPROPRIATING Dancing in the streets of Beijing: improvised uses within the urban system Caroline Chen Latino urbanism in Los Angeles: a model for urban improvisation and reinvention James Rojas Taking place: Rebar's absurd tactics in generous urbanism Blaine Merker cultivating sustainable development in Berlin's Freiräume Michael A. LaFond Re-city, Tokyo: putting "publicness" into the urban building stocks Shin Aiba and Nishida Claiming residual spaces in the heterogeneous city Erick Villagomez PLURALIZING Claiming Latino space: cultural insurgency in the public realm Michael Rios "Night market" in Seattle: community eventscape and the reconstruction of public space Jeffrey Hou Insurgent public space digitalisiert durch: IDS Basel Bern Making places of fusion and resistance: the experiences of immigrant in Taiwanese townships Hung-Ying Chen and Jia-He Lin How Outsiders find in the city: ChungShan in Taipei Pina Wu TRANSGRESSING Machizukuri house and its expanding network: making a new public in private Yasuyoshi Hayashi private gardens serving the public realm Kinoshita Farmhouses as public space Ono, Ryoko Sato, and Nishiyama UNCOVERING Urban Archives: public memories of everyday places Gendelman, Tom Dobrowolsky, and Giorgia Aiello Funny . . . it doesn't insurgent space: the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets and the practice of history as a public art Jeannene Przyblyski Mapping the space of desire: brothel as a city landmark, Wenminglo in Taipei Yung-Teen Annie Chiu Spatial reinscribing landscapes in temporal Suspension Min Jay Kang Public space activism, Toronto and Vancouver: using the banner of public space to capacity and activate change Andrew Pask Urban agriculture in the making of insurgent spaces in Los Angeles and Seattle Teresa M. Mares and Devon G. Pena When needs prospects: sustaining open space activism in East St. Louis Laura Lawson and Janni Sorensen