Webb, Dan, 1976-,

Critical urban theory, common property, and "the Political" : desire and drive in the city / Dan Webb. - 1 online resource (188 pages) - Routledge innovations in political theory ; 73 . - Routledge innovations in political theory ; 73. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-183) and index.

Introduction -- Validating the city in political theory -- Post-politics and the ethical turn in political theory -- Ethics as a symptom of late capitalism -- The open city, or the ethical turn in critical urban studies -- Gentrification and the dromocratic city -- Common property and the politicization of urban space -- Immanent critique and disavowing the urban political -- Conclusion.

9781315186221 9781351736442 9781351736466

10.4324/9781315186221 doi


Cities and towns--Political aspects.
Public spaces--Political aspects.
Commons--Political aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
Critical theory.

HT361 / .W43 2017

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