Critical urban theory, common property, and "the Political" : desire and drive in the city / Dan Webb.

By: Webb, Dan, 1976- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge innovations in political theory: 73.Publisher: London : Routledge, 2017Description: 1 online resource (188 pages)ISBN: 9781315186221; 9781351736442; 9781351736466Subject(s): Cities and towns -- Political aspects | Public spaces -- Political aspects | Commons -- Political aspects | Sociology, Urban | Critical theoryAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 307.76 LOC classification: HT361 | .W43 2017Online resources: Click here to view.
Contents:
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.
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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.

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