Conceptual foundations of anarchitecture and guerrilla urbanism as an alternative to the repressive mode of late capitalist urban planning
Abstract
Growing megacities and the vast number of high-rise buildings, the construction of which is driven by the weakening of building regulations dictated by the bourgeois desire for increased profit and resource concentration, prompt reflection on the role of architecture and urban planning in modern globalized society and their repressive potential. It is characteristic that the theme of repressive architecture and urbanism is poorly covered not only in anarchist discourse but also in the scientific community as a whole. This theoretical
shortcoming leads to an insufficient philosophical rethinking of the phenomena of contemporary post-industrial society and, as a consequence, to the fact that these phenomena can and already do cause irreparable harm to society.
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