Book Launch: Take Over The City w/ Neil Gray

Join us for a book launch and discussion on contemporary urban politics with Neil Gray, author of the newly released Take Over The City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy!

More Details to follow!

6pm

• Doors Open 6.30pm
• Launch & Discussion begins Bar & Snacks available across the night!

This is a Pelican House Social Club event. Please register to attend – this will automatically sign you up as a member (for free), and means you can enjoy drinks at our bar. --- ✊1970s Italy saw urban uprisings across its cities, as working class residents occupied their houses, hospitals and neighbourhoods. A wave of revolutionary activity, best known by the slogan 'Take Over The City!', this moment is a vital reference point for today's campaigns and struggles over land and urban life!

In his new book, Take Over The City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy (Common Notions 2026), Neil Gray offers the first developed account of how these movements were rooted in the shifts of post-war…