How Cities Can Transform Democracy
How Cities Can Transform Democracy We live in an urban age. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. It is well-known that urbanization is changing landscapes,…
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How Cities Can Transform Democracy
We live in an urban age. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. It is well-known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe.
Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch provide a novel way of seeing democracy like a city, shifting scholarly and activist perspectives from institutions to practices, from jurisdictional scales to spaces of collective urban life, and from fixed communities to emergent political subjects. What implications does this have for democracy?This incisive book argues that urbanization undermines established certainties of nation-state politics and calls for a profound rethinking of democracy as a project. Through a discussion of examples from around the world, the book shows that distinctly urban forms of collective self-rule are already apparent.