ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book aims to review different ways that it might be possible to make sense of the city, and, in turn, explores how these rest on different theoretical propositions about what the city is and what it does. This chapter discusses some points on which (most) urban theorists now seem to agree. The first is that the city is comprised of a more or less dense combinations of 'stuff' and that this stuff exists in more or less expansive networks of connection. A second point of broad consensus is that cities are not just in the world, but of the world. Urban political ecology in the global era are concerned about the way cities have come to completely colonise, and change, the natural world. Third, and finally, there is general agreement that city living needs to be drastically improved.
