Cities for people, not for profit: an introduction / What is critical urban theory? / Whose right(s) to what city? / Henri Lefebvre, the right to the city, and the new metropolitan mainstream / The "right to the city" in urban social movements / Space and revolution in theory and practice: eight theses / The praxis of planning and the contributions of critical development studies / Assemblages, actor--networks, and the challenges of critical urban theory / The new urban growth ideology of "creative cities" / Critical theory and "gray space": mobilization of the colonized / Missing Marcuse: on gentrification and displacement / An actually existing just city? The fight for the right to the city in Amsterdam / A critical approach to solving the housing problem / Socialist cities, for people or for power? / The right to the city: from theory to grassroots alliance / What is to be done? And who the hell is going to do it?