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Index
Cover
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 Architecture and Political Regimes
1 What (if Anything) Is “Democratic Architecture”?
2 Fortifications and Democracy in the Ancient Greek World
3 Plato’s Magnesia and Costa’s Brasilia
Part 2 Architecture as Constitutive of Political Space
4 What’s in a Balcony? The In-Between as Public Good
5 Durability and Citizenship: Toward an Arendtian Political Philosophy of Architecture
6 The Soft Power of Neighbors: Proximity, Scale, and Responses to Violence
Part 3 Architecture as Infrastructure: Governmentality and Political Economy
7 Scripting the City: J. G. Ballard among the Architects
8 Architecture as Government
9 Making Superstar Cities Work: Jane Jacobs in Toronto
10 Whose Right to the City? Lessons from the Territorial Rights Debate
Part 4 The Political Agency of Architecture
11 Can Architecture Really Do Nothing? Lefebvre, Bloch, and Jameson on Utopia
12 The Architecture of Political Renewal
13 The Modesty of Architecture
14 Architecture, Materiality, and Politics: Sensations, Symbols, Situations, and Decors
Epilogue Top-Down/Bottom-Up: Co-Producing the CityFonna Forman
Index
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