Margaret Kohn is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Winner, the Dennis Judd Best Book Award from the Urban and Local Politics Section of APSA

Winner. the David Easton Award from the Foundations of Political Thought Section of APSA

"Margaret Kohn brings an exceptionally sophisticated theoretical understanding to bear on the bases of urban injustice and the potential for its remediation. Rather than simply engaging in a re exive call for greater democracy, she develops a complex theory of social solidarism from which she builds an argument for a right to the city in which all city users share in their commonly developed wealth."- Susan S. Fainstein, author of The Just City

"Margaret Kohn is one of the very few scholars writing about cities whose work combines a sophisticated understanding of normative theory and the empirical dimensions of 'actually existing' urban life. In The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth she adeptly melds this combination with the best insights of critical urban studies to construct an innovative argument with radical implications for practice."- David Imbroscio, author of Urban America Reconsidered

"This rich and engaging work deserves a wide audience."- Clarissa Rile Hayward, Washington University in St. Louis

"[S]ophisticated and marvelously accessible...What makes Kohn's work so attractive, to both theorists and activists alike, is that she merges critical rigor with urgent solidartistic affinities for those struggling against urban injustice." - Fonna Forman, Perspectives on Politics