Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors General Introduction Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer Introduction: Challenging Urban Space Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer Part 1: Contested Civic Spaces in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 1 Civic Subversion in London's Public Rituals in the Seventeenth Century Christoph Ehland 2 The Earl of Rochester: Sexual Politics, Riots and the Chaos of the Carnivalesque Norbert Lennartz 3 Rus in Urbe: Parks in Eighteenth-Century Cities Mihaela Irimia 4 The Slippery Slope to the Gallows: Crime and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London Kerstin Frank Part 2: Urban Rioting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 5 Giving Meaning to Anarchy: Contemporary Interpretations of Rioting in 18th-Century Britain Gerd Stratmann 6 Blending Spaces: The Gordon Riots in Literature Pascal Fischer 7 The "Capital of Discontent": Urban Resistance in Manchester Bernd Hirsch Part 3: Reimagining Urban Space 8 Creating Situationist Ambiences: Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography Stephan Kohl 9 Reshaping the City: The Eruv as Stealth Architecture Margaret Olin 10 Challenging Urban Realities in Recent London Writing: Iain Sinclair's Ghost Milk and John Lanchester's Capital Ingo Berensmeyer and Catharina Löffler Part 4: Creative Transformations of the City 11 Critical Urban Studies and/in "Right to the City" Movements: The Politics of Form in Activist Cultural Production Jens Martin Gurr 12 Street Art as Reclaiming the Streets Marie Hologa 13 Graffiti as a Place of Resistance in British Poetry István D. Rácz 14 The Berlin Wall as Mobile Ruin Blake Fitzpatrick Index.