Moscow under Construction explores the growth of place-based opposition to destructive redevelopment practices in Moscow and the consequent changes in city s governance regime. The groups of citizens discussed in this study have struggled to defend homes, neighborhoods, heritage buildings, and historic districts, and in the process they ve built up civil society and advanced democratization. Heritage preservationists and other aggrieved Muscovites have organized themselves into initiative groups and social associations to protect specific places in the city and to influence the planning...