The Design of Protest

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

[The Design of Protest] opens up exciting lines of analysis by examining protests as spatial choreography, using concepts such as theater, ritual, and icons as new frames of understanding. It also broadens the terrain through careful consideration of a diverse set of protests. Planning Theory & Practice

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