Community as Urban Practice

What is a community? How is the belonging to it of certain people determine? How firmly the communities are attached to specific spaces? And why do political manipulations with this concept pose a real danger? The term "community" in recent years has been actively used by various actors of the urban environment - from activists to officials and developers - however, its value remains blurry. In his book, Talya Blokland proposes to conceptually comprehend this concept through the prism of various social relations in order to eliminate the gap between the theory and the practice of working with communities. She makes an attempt to consider them as a set of empirical practices from which the city itself is emerging, with all its power relations and forms of inequality. Talya Blokland is a sociologist, professor at the University of Humbolds in Berlin