Book review: How Cities Can Transform Democracy

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Beveridge R Koch P (2019) Urban everyday politics: Politicising practices and the transformation of the here and now. Environment and Planning. D, Society & Space 37(1): 142–157.

Beveridge R Koch P (2021) Contesting austerity, de-centring the state: Anti-politics and the political horizon of the urban. Environment and Planning C Politics and Space 39(3): 451–468.

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Brenner N Katsikis N (2020) Operational landscapes: Hinterlands of the capitalocene. Architectural Design 90(1): 22–31.

Cooper D Dhawan N Newman J (2019) Reimagining the State: Theoretical Challenges and Transformative Possibilities. Abingdon: Routledge.

Evans D (2023) A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie. London: Repeater.

Hardt M Negri A (2009) Commonwealth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Kohn M (2016) The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mair P (2023) Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy. London and New York, NY: Verso Books.

Marchart O (2007) Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau (Taking on the Political). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Merrifield A (2011) Crowd politics, or, ‘here comes everybuddy’. New Left Review 71(Sept/Oct): 103–114.

Merrifield A (2013) The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest Under Planetary Urbanization. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Neel PA (2018) Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict. London: Reaktion.

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Roth L Russell B Thompson M (2023) Politicising proximity: Radical municipalism as a strategy in crisis. Urban Studies 60(11): 2009–2035.

Russell B (2019) Beyond the local trap: New municipalism and the rise of the fearless cities. Antipode 51(3): 989–1010.

Schafran A Noah Smith M Hall S (2020) The Spatial Contract: A New Politics of Provision for an Urbanized Planet. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Shelley C (2024) Murray Bookchin and the value of democratic municipalism. European Journal of Political Theory 23(2): 224–245.

Swyngedouw E (2010) Apocalypse forever? Post-political populism and the spectre of climate change. Theory Culture & Society 27(2-3): 213–232.

Thomas PD (2023) Radical Politics: On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Thompson M (2020) Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s Hidden History of Collective Alternatives. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Turner JFC (1972) Housing as a verb. In: Turner JFC Fichter R (eds) Freedom to Build. Springfield, OH: Collier Macmillan, pp.148–175.

van Outryve d’Ydewalle S (2019) Becoming mayor to abolish the position of mayor? Thinking the line between reform and revolution in a communalist perspective. Unbound 12(55): 55–100.

Wilson J (2013) ‘The devastating conquest of the lived by the conceived’: The concept of abstract space in the work of Henri Lefebvre. Space and Culture 16(3): 364–380.