Constructing Community: Configurations of the Social in Contemporary Philosophy and Urbanism

by Brian Elliott and Brian Elliott Assistant Professor of Philosophy Portland State University USA

Constructing Community examines community from the particular perspective of the shaping and control of urban space in contemporary liberal democracies. Following a consideration and critique of influential theories of community that have arisen within European philosophy over the last three decades, Brian Elliott investigates parallel approaches to community within urban theory and practice over the same period. Underlying the comparison of political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739139665
• ISBN13: 9780739139660
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"