Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
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
Index

About the Author

Margaret Kohn is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

"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