Introduction. The Politics of Squatting, Time Frames and Spatial Contexts -- PART I. Case Studies -- Socio-Spatial Structures and Protest Cycles of Squatted Social Centres in Madrid -- Squatting Cycles in Barcelona: Identities, Repression and The Controversy of Institutionalisation -- Shifting Socio-Spatial Contexts and The Space of Social Movements: Squatting in Seville. -- Occupations of Housing and Social Centers in Rome: A Durable Resistance to Neoliberalism and Institutionalisation -- The Squatting Movement(s) in Paris: Internal Divides and Conditions for Survival -- The Cycles of Squatting in Berlin (1969-2016) -- Cycles of The Copenhagen Squatter Movement: From Slumstormer to Bz Brigades and The Autonomous Movement -- The Political Squatters' Movement and Its Social Centres in The Gentrifying City of Rotterdam -- The Ebb and Flow of Resistance: The Squatters' Movement and Squatted Social Centres in Brighton -- PART II. Comparisons -- More Than Four Decades OF Squattin g: Cycles, Waves and Stages of Autonomous Urban Politics in European Cities -- Keep Your Piece of Cake, We’ll Squat The Bakery! Autonomy Meets Repression and Institutionalisation -- Squatted Social Centres and The Housing Question.