Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: Our starting point for urban sustainability and justice -- 1. Our starting point: sustainability and justice made urban -- The city in a state of exception -- Ordinary justice in the urban commons -- What do we know about planning for justice in the sustainable city? -- Expanding the common sense of pragmatism into a critical pragmatism -- Note -- References -- 2. Sustainability as a slippery and a sticky concept -- Pragmatism and sustainability -- A critical pragmatic approach to recognizing urban sustainability in action -- Notes -- References -- 3. Celebrating the city, for all the wrong reasons? -- What was lost, now is found -- The books that mark the shift in urban thinking -- Trappings revealed by critical urban scholarship -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART II: An urban way forward in a pragmatic view -- 4. An urban shot at authenticity: our cities become ourselves -- The implications of individualism for urban notions of justice -- The dynamics of argumentation -- Our cities become ourselves -- Placemaking in the public domain -- Pragmatic opportunity for engagement -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Empowerment in urban communities, after abandoning Utopia -- From the Great Society to the Great Community -- Reviving public participation to serve sustainability and justice -- Learning socially to engage in communities -- Pragmatic reappropriation of empowerment in community -- Conclusion -- References -- 6. Security, struggle, and resilience in the city -- Urban risk and urban reward -- The prospect of resilience -- The scene of struggle -- Towards a greater commoning of the city -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 7. Conclusion: a better urban life to be lived