What is the role of public space in insurgent urbanism and collective action?

What is the role of public space in insurgent urbanism and collective action?

Required Readings:
Davis, Diane E., and Prassanna Raman. “The Physicality of Citizenship: The Built Environment and Insurgent Urbanism.” Thresholds, no. 41 (2013): 60-71.
Dovey, Kim, and Ross King. “Forms of informality: Morphology and visibility of informal settlements.” Built Environment 37, no. 1 (2011): 11-29.
Questions To Consider:

The Physically of Citizenship, Diane Davis + Prasanna Raman
REQUIRED: Provide an example of an insurgent space of citizenship in a city of your choice. Provide an image and analysis of what makes the space successful or unsuccessful in fostering collective action.

What is the role of public space in insurgent urbanism and collective action?
How do the physical attributes of built environmental space shape citizen action?
Do you think planners and urban designers should be involved in the construction of protest landscapes? Or should the creation of these spaces remain citizen-driven?
What are your own interpretations and thoughts on the following statement:
“People use violence to make claims upon the city and use the city to make violent claims.”

Forms of Informality, Kim Dovey + Ross King
What is the formal difference between slums, squatters, and informal settlements?
On the image of the city: How is informality made to remain spatially invisible in the city?
What theoretical frameworks could we use to analyze the forms of urban informality?
What do you think is the role of urban designers in preserving, analyzing, theorizing, etc informal settlements?