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This volume seeks to address a number of broad questions, including: what is the role and limit of urban space in the expression of group and individual rights and desires?, do democratic social relations require spatial propinquity?, and what are the characteristics of democratic urban space?

Giving Ground is prompted by two phenomena whose paradoxical convergence is currently altering our experience and conception of urban relations and city planning. On the one hand, forces of globalisation push towards conditions of homogenisation and deterritorialisation, while, on the other, a surging politics of identity barricades various groups behind particular claims and ignites violent persecutions. The covert relation between these phen...