Local Self-Government and the Right to the City (Volume 1) Quotes

“The point of neighbourhood empowerment is democratization, which depends on people acting together where they live. Although most people live in cities now – or at least in “urban areas” of one sort or another – they usually dwell in particular neighbourhoods that are on a much smaller scale.”
― Warren Magnusson, Local Self-Government and the Right to the City (McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance Book 1)

“our right of local self-government, which is actually our right to govern ourselves democratically.”
― Warren Magnusson, Local Self-Government and the Right to the City (McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance Book 1)

“Aristotle, while sociologists have given up on the practice.) For him, this idea follows quite directly from his understanding that politics is concerned with the development and implementation of the principles necessary for the good life, in all aspects of life within a self-sufficient community.”
― Warren Magnusson, Local Self-Government and the Right to the City (McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance Book 1)