ABSTRACT
The aim of this book, as the title suggests, is to explore the relationship between cities, politics and power with the hope thereby of shedding light on how cities have contributed to the thought and practice of politics, how cities can be considered both an arena and a site of power, and why the study of the urban complex can help us to rethink and revise the ways we have traditionally thought about political power. But how to make sense of the relationship between such concrete, particular and abstract entities? Such an analysis requires a critical examination of the forms and processes of political power in operation at the urban level and how urban politics operates and interacts with lesser and greater scales of government and networks of power.
