The Counter-Melancholic City: Remaking London’s Protest Landscape traces how protest and policing co-produce urban space in London, revealing emotion, infrastructure, and prediction in convergence. Drawing on a year of situated observation in the city, it examines different emotional forms of dissent. Drawing on a year of situated observation in London and protest photographs by Zeynep Doğan, the text examines how protest and policing co-produce urban space. It explores the tension between melancholic protest forms—contained and regulated through routes, permits, and predictive systems—and counter-melancholic practices, which emerge through sustained occupations, care-based assemblies, and collective presence.