Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 Validating the City in Political Theory; 2 Post- Politics and the Ethical Turn in Political Theory; 3 Ethics as a Symptom of Late Capitalism; 4 The Open City, or the Ethical Turn in Critical Urban Studies; 5 Gentrification and the Dromocratic City; Philosophical Excursus: City of Desire; City of Drive; 6 Common Property and the Politicization of Urban Space; 7 Immanent Critique and Disavowing the Urban Political; Conclusion; References; Index