Kin City - Urban Ecologies, Infrastructures of Life, and Internationalist Struggles

Colonial-capitalist urbanization has gradually transformed the earth into a planet of cities: In 1950, less than a third of the world's ever-growing population lived in cities; in 2007, for the first time in history, more than half did. Given this development, it is not surprising that the ecological crises of this planet are closely linked to big cities, or more precisely to urban metabolisms.
Our planet of cities is trapped in an economic-ecological vicious circle. To break out, we must expand critical reappraisals of the histories and continuities of colonial-capitalist urbanization.
We are challenged to connect urban and environmental struggles across borders by asking: How can we reclaim and reinvent cities as infrastructures of both human and other-than-human life?


This book is published in conjunction with the Kin City Festival held in Berlin, October 17-19, 2024, at the ZK/U - Center for Arts and Urbanistics, a project of BG berlinergazette.de supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, the German Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb, and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.


Published in 3 languages.
ISBN 978-86-88567-45-9 (ENG)
ISBN 978-86-88567-39-8 (DE)
ISBN 978-86-88567-40-4 (BHS)