Urban Movements

Urban movements are social movements through which citizens attempt to have some control over the built environment, the social fabric of the city, and the local political process. The topics covered in this entry include the social and economic issues that drive urban movements, the action repertoire, organizational patterns (among which are top‐down and bottom‐up mobilization patterns), and coalitions. Also discussed are the social composition, goals and effects, identity versus instrumental orientation, ideology, contributions to wider social change, the rise and fall of urban movements, the effects of political and economic regime change on the character of urban movements, and the local and supralocal levels

Collective action · Political mobilization · Politics · Resource mobilization · Social change · Social movement · Urban politics