Habits, habitation, and otherness
An experience of the aftermath: inhabiting a “state of exception”
Can space activate memories of discontinuity?
3. Walter Benjamin’s thresholds
The flâneur and urban phantasmagoria
The dialectics of disenchantment
4. Navigating the metropolitan space: walking as a form of negotiation with otherness
Crossing passages to otherness
5. Theatricality: the art of creating thresholds
Distance, difference, and racism
Four steps towards the different
Neighborhoods and manageable proximity
6. Heterotopias: appropriating Foucault’s geography of otherness
The spatialization of knowledge
Heterotopias as spaces in suspense
7. Identities and rebellion in Zapatista heterotopias
8. The December 2008 youth uprising in Athens: glimpses of a possible city of thresholds
Identities in crisis and the experience of urban porosity
Legitimacy crisis and the role of contemporary communication practices
“Common space” as threshold space
10. Emerging common spaces as a challenge to the city of crisis
11. Urban commoning and the city of thresholds
Illustrations