Cities’ transformation and contemporary processes of urbanization have been studied as regards the socio-spatial impacts that manifest imperatives of capitalism and colonization continuously leave on them. Influenced by a political theory following a linear conceptual approach to power (as vertical or horizontal, top-down or bottom-up), empirical evidence from around 60 case studies by public space researchers in different continents, and urban contexts suggests to revisit, challenge and refine such a gridlocked framing through more cyclical, circular and centrifugal approaches to understanding the power of alter-political action in public space. Supported by a shift from studying narrow frames such as „public space“ and „urban culture“ a deeper reflection as regards the "Critiques of Everyday Life and Lived Space in the 21st Century“ promote a contextualized, worlded and intersectional approach to the urban study of hegemony, counter hegemonic action and shared servant leadership in urban activism and social movements. Such a conception actively breaks with a consideration of movement politics as mere anti-politics, subordinated under the forces of markets and states. In that sense, alter politics as a practice of counter-hegemonic, propositional and speculative renewal of place-based democracy-making invites scholars to rethink democracy and the spatial scalings and workings it involves, as an affective, caring and deeply ambivalent spatial praxis in places of everyday life. As the past decade has witnessed a severe series of moments of crisis and disruptions, both on a global scale and also expressed with different timings and rhythms at regional and local scales, a general unsettling of urban democracies as (Idealtype) political projects of collective and communal self-management and self-organization is taking place more forcefully then noticed before. This general unsettling both relates to turnovers in undemocratic structures, systems and practices, yet also signals a serious break in urban everyday routines visible in the study of lived space and urban everyday life. The study of these urban and beyond-urban phenomena includes effective articulations of the need and relevance to develop more intersectional approaches to studying the manifold relations between social inequality (and its environmental, cultural, economic and political repercussions and impacts), and the spatial everyday praxis of democracy.