Renewing Urban Politics

摘要

Because redistributive policies are usually at odds with the economic interests of the city, proponents will find difficulty in gathering support for them. ... To contribute to a cause so unlikely of success is not worthwhile, whatever the possible benefits. The policies of redistribution thus become ... 'unpolitics' (Peterson, 1981, p. 167). Increasingly, we see the right to the city falling into the hands of private or quasi-private interests ... [such that] ... The right to the city, as it is now constituted, is too narrowly confined, restricted in most cases to a small political and economic elite who are in a position to shape cities more and more after their own desires (Harvey, 2008, p. 38).