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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Margaret Kohn (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.80cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780190606602ISBN 10: 0190606606 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 17 November 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Solidarism and Social Property Chapter Three: The Return of the Pavement Dwellers Chapter Four: Public Housing and the Right to Occupancy Chapter Five: What is Wrong with Gentrification? Chapter Six: Freedom Riders Chapter Seven: Occupying the Commons: The Populist and the Sovereigntist Public Chapter Eight: Parks and Refs: Democracy, Disobedience and Public Space Chapter Nine: Hetero-rights to the City Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsMargaret Kohn brings an exceptionally sophisticated theoretical understanding to bear on the bases of urban injustice and the potential for its remediation. Rather than simply engaging in a reflexive call for greater democracy, she develops a complex theory of social solidarism from which she builds an argument for a right to the city in which all city users share in their commonly developed wealth. Susan S. Fainstein, author of The Just City Margaret Kohn is one of the very few scholars writing about cities whose work combines a sophisticated understanding of normative theory and the empirical dimensions of actually existing urban life. In The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth she adeptly melds this combination with the best insights of critical urban studies to construct an innovative argument with radical implications for practice. Among the many readers finding this book valuable will be those urban scholars, students, and practitioners looking for an accessible and engaging pathway into the complexities of normative theory as applied to contemporary cities. David Imbroscio, author of Urban America Reconsidered Margaret Kohns central argument is that we should think of contemporary cities as common-wealth; in other words, as the kind of value created by multiple social actorsincluding contemporaries as well people in the pastthat makes the creation of new value possible. It is an appealing and persuasive argument. This rich and engaging work deserves a wide audience. Clarissa Rile Hayward, Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis This rich and engaging work deserves a wide audience. * Clarissa Rile Hayward, Washington University in St. Louis * Margaret Kohn is one of the very few scholars writing about cities whose work combines a sophisticated understanding of normative theory and the empirical dimensions of actually existing urban life. In The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth she adeptly melds this combination with the best insights of critical urban studies to construct an innovative argument with radical implications for practice. * David Imbroscio, author of Urban America Reconsidered * Margaret Kohn brings an exceptionally sophisticated theoretical understanding to bear on the bases of urban injustice and the potential for its remediation. Rather than simply engaging in a re exive call for greater democracy, she develops a complex theory of social solidarism from which she builds an argument for a right to the city in which all city users share in their commonly developed wealth. * Susan S. Fainstein, author of The Just City * """Margaret Kohn brings an exceptionally sophisticated theoretical understanding to bear on the bases of urban injustice and the potential for its remediation. Rather than simply engaging in a re exive call for greater democracy, she develops a complex theory of social solidarism from which she builds an argument for a right to the city in which all city users share in their commonly developed wealth.""- Susan S. Fainstein, author of The Just City ""Margaret Kohn is one of the very few scholars writing about cities whose work combines a sophisticated understanding of normative theory and the empirical dimensions of 'actually existing' urban life. In The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth she adeptly melds this combination with the best insights of critical urban studies to construct an innovative argument with radical implications for practice.""- David Imbroscio, author of Urban America Reconsidered ""This rich and engaging work deserves a wide audience.""- Clarissa Rile Hayward, Washington University in St. Louis ""[S]ophisticated and marvelously accessible...What makes Kohn's work so attractive, to both theorists and activists alike, is that she merges critical rigor with urgent solidartistic affinities for those struggling against urban injustice."" - Fonna Forman, Perspectives on Politics" Author InformationMargaret Kohn is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |