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Jan-Werner Müller

Street, Palace, Square

The Architecture of Democratic Spaces

Jan-Werner Müller

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English
Allen Lane
07 May 2026
City & town planning - architectural aspects; Political science & theory; Political ideologies; Urban & municipal planning
Can architecture ever be democratic? An elegant new theory of politics and urban design

Building requires power and resources - then, once created, our environment structures how we relate to each other. But what would a distinctly democratic built environment look like? Should we prioritize an inclusive process by which as many citizens as possible can decide how a building is designed? Or is it about how architecture and urban spaces can best represent democracy to citizens - and how building and city planning can concretely facilitate democratic action by citizens?

In Street, Palace, Square, political theorist Jan-Werner M ller offers an elegant new account of architecture and democracy that draws on examples from Washington DC to Dhaka, Cairo to Berlin. Ranging widely across political philosophy, history and design, he shows that bringing architecture and democracy together has an unexpected benefit. As we reflect on spaces and symbols on the one hand and our understandings of democracy on the other, we might see possibilities we did not see before- how to create spaces for citizens to make politics their own.
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Imprint:   Allen Lane
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 222mm,  Width: 143mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   370g
ISBN:   9780241382035
ISBN 10:   0241382033
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jan-Werner M ller is Professor of Politics at Princeton University and the author most recently of the critically acclaimed What Is Populism? and Democracy Rules. He contributes regularly to the London Review of Books, The Guardian and Foreign Policy.

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