A01=AbdouMaliq Simone
A01=Ash Amin
A01=Daniel e. Agbiboa
A01=Enrica Morlicchio
A01=Filip De Boeck
A01=Julie-Anne Boudreau
Author_AbdouMaliq Simone
Author_Ash Amin
Author_Daniel e. Agbiboa
Author_Enrica Morlicchio
Author_Filip De Boeck
Author_Julie-Anne Boudreau
Category=JBSD
Cities
cities and the climate crisis
cities in the 21st century
ecologies of urban life
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forthcoming
impoverished communities
Kinshasa
Lagos
Mexico City
Naples
poor communities
resistant urbanism
urban foreclosure
urban life
urban life in the 21st century
what is the future of the city?
Product details
- ISBN 9781509575688
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Polity Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Cities are now on the front line of dangers associated with the climate crisis, health emergencies, uncontrolled artificial intelligence, escalating warfare, growing authoritarianism and capitalist profligacy. This is especially so for their unprotected populations who, in large numbers, now face a dire future of precarity as powerful elites seek to turn urban assets to their advantage in confronting an uncertain future. For the vast majority of people living in cities, the future is one of foreclosure – a future of dispossession and impoverishment that is lacking a horizon of hope.
What pathways remain open for cities to avert a future of foreclosure for people leading modest lives in modest neighbourhoods? To answer this question, this book looks to the popular practices and knowledges that exist within urban communities and neighbourhoods, finding within them elements that are potentially reparative and curative. Here the engagement with time is different, involving repertoires of horizontal relations, affinities of place and restive knowledge capable of making something out of nothing, of bending adversity towards other goals. Here, rich yet neglected ecologies of urban inhabitation – with all their wiles and improvisations – emerge as the ground of future-making. The book offers a body of concepts to encapsulate this threatened yet resistant urbanism, exemplifies its workings in the streets of Kinshasa, Lagos, Mexico City and Naples, and outlines an infrastructural and aesthetic politics to bring out its potential, thereby enabling another future to shine through urban foreclosure.
What pathways remain open for cities to avert a future of foreclosure for people leading modest lives in modest neighbourhoods? To answer this question, this book looks to the popular practices and knowledges that exist within urban communities and neighbourhoods, finding within them elements that are potentially reparative and curative. Here the engagement with time is different, involving repertoires of horizontal relations, affinities of place and restive knowledge capable of making something out of nothing, of bending adversity towards other goals. Here, rich yet neglected ecologies of urban inhabitation – with all their wiles and improvisations – emerge as the ground of future-making. The book offers a body of concepts to encapsulate this threatened yet resistant urbanism, exemplifies its workings in the streets of Kinshasa, Lagos, Mexico City and Naples, and outlines an infrastructural and aesthetic politics to bring out its potential, thereby enabling another future to shine through urban foreclosure.
Ash Amin is Emeritus 1931 Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College.
AbdouMaliq Simone is Senior Professorial Fellow Emeritus at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield.
Daniel E. Agbiboa is John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, at Harvard University.
Julie-Anne Boudreau is Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Geografia of the Universidad nacional autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).
Filip De Boeck is Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven.
Enrica Morlicchio is Professor of Economic Sociology at the Federico II University of Naples.
