The City

"The city is not a neutral geographical concept but a locus of politics, with its spatial arrangement - through the methods of segregation, enclosures, expansion, exclusion, etc. - as a tool used by the state to enforce a specific social order. Such an order forms the 'normal, day-to-day activities' that are consistent with the existing mode of production and its ideology. Hence, urban space is deeply ideological as it seeks to reproduce the necessary relations of production and to reinforce the structural predominance of the ruling classes."