Introducton: a public sphere, for example / Sander Bax, Pascal Gielen, Bram Ieven
Part 1: Artistic Imagination of the city
Voices of finance: the Joris Luyendijk Banking blog and Tom Lanoye's novel Gelukkige slaven / Sander Bax
Cities & signs : rethuinking Calvino's urban imaginaries / Odile Heynders
How to dare, interrupt, intrude, fictionalize and scream for a public : an interview with Sarah Vanhee / Bojana Cvejić
ActionScape / Rennie Tang & Sara Wookey
Part 2: The city and its politics
Can we tolerate it? notes on the public sphere after the end of Liberalism / Bram Ieven
The machinic-dividual city / Gerald Raunig
The political art of urban insurgency / Erik Swyngedouw
Part 3: Struggle with the city
Poet interrupted: Bart Moeyaert as Antwerp's poet lauteate (2006-2007) / Vanessa Joosen
Embodying the possibilities of public space - Circus Amok: an interview with Jennifer Miller / Tessa Overbeek
Mysteries of the creative class, or, I have seen the enemy and they is us / Gregory Sholette
Part 4: Common public space
Of cities roaring / Geertjan de Vugt
Commonplaces on the (spatial) commons / Lieven de Cauter
Peforming the common city: on the crossroads of art, politics and public life / Pascal Gielen.