The Rise of Urbanization and the Decline of Citizenship - Hardcover

Murray Bookchin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871567067 ISBN 13: 9780871567062

Publisher: Sierra Club Books, 1987

Synopsis

Examines the ecological impact of urbanization, argues that citizens are allowing themselves to be disenfranchised, and suggests ways to encourage active participation in politics.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Once arenas for humanly scaled interactions in distinctive neighborhoods, our cities are fast being swallowed up by sprawling metropolitian entities designed to serve corporate needs. To reverse the city's dehumanization, social thinker Bookchin (The Ecology of Freedom) here advocates an agenda for participatory democracy. The new political culture he envisions is built around citizens' assemblies and decentralized cities. Bookchin takes on socialists and liberals who scoff at the idea of decentralization. Rooting his arguments in a historical survey of cities, he reviews the ways people mingled in ancient Athens, the vigorous city states of medieval Italy, Swiss communes, the Paris Cummune and New England towns. It is significant that thousands of European free cities rebelled against the arrival of the modern nation-state.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Sierra Club Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0871567067
• ISBN 13: 9780871567062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300