本书作者将针对「抗争行为的设计」做进一步探讨，也就是说，那些旨在挑战政府与人民之间的社会空间距离的抗争者，他们如何善用抗争空间中的物理几何和象徵意义来计划一场抗争活动。本书包含许多世界各地的案例研究，比方说：北京的天安门广场丶华盛顿特区的国家广场丶特拉维夫的拉宾广场丶布宜诺斯艾利斯的五月广场等等。作者提出公共抗争活动的三个主要层面的看法：在特定地点进行抗争活动的计划；事件空间编排的选择，其中包括特定策略的价值和含义；以及在一个分散丶复杂和冲突的世界中，投身於公共空间进行当代抗议的挑战。本书案例研究也补充了大量照片丶详细图表和计划表，而这些案例研究的内容都来自与城市官员丶城市规划者和抗议者本身的采访纪录。
本书补充资料：112幅黑白照片丶3幅黑白插图丶3张黑白地图丶5张黑白图表丶27张表格
书评
“An impressive and serious-minded effort to build an analytical framework that would allow us to evaluate protest actions as design interventions on their own terms…a book like this is, indeed, long overdue.”
- Journal of Planning Education and Research
“This book could not be more important or timely. The wave of regressive events in 2016 will surely spark a whole new and intense era of public protest and civil disobedience, and this book has the potential to be a great reference for the upcoming struggles toward a better world. It has a very large audience that spans from the architectural and planning disciplines all the way to sociology, political science, social work, and public policy. It should also be read by everybody using public protest as part of their political agenda, as well as those in charge of the safety of protests. In summary, this is a book that every urban designer and every social movement organizer should read.”
- Fernando Luiz Lara, University of Texas at Austin, coauthor of Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia
“This book has tremendous potential. There is a rich literature about social movements, but I know of no other book that specifically speaks to the question of the spatial configuration of protest events. This is a valuable contribution.”
- Renia Ehrenfeucht, University of New Mexico, author of Urban Revitalization: Remaking Cities in a Changing World
关於作者
Tali Hatuka是一名建筑师和城市规划师，在以色列特拉维夫大学（Tel Aviv University）地理与人类环境系创立现代城市设计实验室（Laboratory of Contemporary Urban Design）。 她是《Violent Acts》 和《 Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv: Revisioning Moments 》的作者。
