Living Just Enough for the City: Experiments in Urban Political Theory

Today, most of us call the city home. The city is also the context in which we come to understand ourselves, build relationships with others, and negotiate our collective lives.Many authors have recognised this transformation entails new social and political challenges.What is less often acknowledged is how this alters the way we think about ourselves, as well as politics and social life more broadly.Humanity's move to the city entails a philosophical transformation as well as a physical relocation.Placing the city at the centre of our thinking challenges contemporary political theory, giving rise to distinctive problems, suggesting new ways of thinking, and calling for innovative methods.Living Just Enough for the City develops an urban political theory by asking "where are we?" and "where should we be going?".By using the city as both a site for theorising and a focal point it reconstructs key concepts in political theory and provides important insights into contemporary political li