Civic city

What is the role of design in the production of urban space? Does design wish to be only one element of the mercantile colonization of social spaces? Or is it capable of building a citizen city on the ideological ruins of existing urban spaces? The eight essays collected here call for the formation of a "civic city" as an alternative to the neoliberal paradigm of urban development. Erik Swyngedouw, Gui Bonsiepe, Jamie Peck, Jesko Fezer, Margit Mayer, Neil Brenner, Nik Theodore, Tom Holert