Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth

by Margaret Kohn

The city is a paradoxical space, in theory belonging to everyone, in practice inaccessible to people who cannot afford the high price of urban real estate. Within these urban spaces are public and social goods including roads, policing, transit, public education, and culture, all of which have been created through multiple hands and generations, but that are effectively only for the use of those able to acquire private property. Why should this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190606606
• ISBN13: 9780190606602
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"