I propose the concept of Occupancy Urbanism as a way to read the everyday city and its spaces of politics. The city is understood as an intense dynamic that is being built incrementally via multiple contestations of land and location. This concept poses the urban "frontier" as an oppositional site rather than accepting it as a definitive edge to "Capital". This site, built around land, economy and complex local politics, is shaped by multi-dimensional historicities embedded in daily practice. It offers an unexpected resilience, stakes an unpredictable claim that cannot easily be uprooted via narratives of maps, modernity shaped by "Mega" projects, civil society, economic imperatives, or the rubric of "development". Nor does it accept the nature of "resistance" shaped by explicit purpose and organisation as viewed in "social movements" or NGO-centric "deep democracy", or reactions reduced to "tactics" in confrontation with "strategies".