Take the city: voices of radical municipalism - Jason Toney

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• With rapid increases in urban populations, there is an urgent need to transform our world's cities in keeping with ecological imperatives and democratic principles.
• A growing worldwide citizen movement is attempting to challenge bureaucratic administrations and replace the politics of fear with neighborhood power, direct democracy, and solidarity.
• They believe that threats of capitalism, totalitarianism, and climate change require imaginative political resistance rooted where they live.
• Combining political theory, philosophy, history, and intimate narrative, Take the City presents an expansive view of municipalist movements around the world.
• With over twenty contributors, including David Harvey, this anthology provides crucial insights into the challenges ahead by looking at and beyond municipal electoral politics.
• Stories of diverse regions and issues illuminate the nuances of municipalist movements of the past and present, providing a roadmap of the fight for our future.
• From Seattle to Kurdistan, Burlington to Oaxaca, Barcelona to Mississippi, and Vienna to Montreal, contributors carefully consider the intertwined questions concerning current crises in housing, the environment, democracy, and capitalism.