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Politics of Urbanism - Seeing like a City (Hardcover, New)
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Politics of Urbanism - Seeing like a City (Hardcover, New)
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To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to
understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from
theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and
Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense
of the city as a form of political order. Locally and globally, the
city exists by virtue of complicated patterns of government and
self-government, prompted by proximate diversity. A multiplicity of
authorities in different registers is typical. Sovereignty,
although often claimed, is infinitely deferred. What emerges by
virtue of self-organization is not susceptible to control by any
central authority, and so we are impelled to engage politically in
a world that does not match our expectations of sovereignty. How
then are we are to engage realistically and creatively? We have to
begin from where we are if we are to understand the possibilities.
Building on traditions of political and urban theory in order to
advance a new interpretation of the role of cities/urbanism in
contemporary political life, this work will be of great interest to
scholars of political theory and urban theory, international
relations theory and international relations.
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