Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Return to Politics -- Architecture and Agency -- Architectural Discourse in the 1970s -- Politics and Agency -- Contents and Structure -- PART ONE Critique, Reformism and Co-optation -- Critique and Change -- Social Architecture -- The Role of Critique -- Evolutionary Socialism -- Korsch's Hypothesis -- The Ascent of Reformism -- Social Stratification -- The Sanitary Movement -- Model Housing -- The Strengthening of Government -- Averting Class War -- The Ascent of Town Planning -- Testing Korsch's Hypothesis -- The Integration of Critique -- Societal Integration -- Towards a Theory of Récupération -- Récupération in Architecture -- PART TWO The Architecture of Radical Democracy -- The Post-Fordist City -- Park Hill -- The New City -- The Return of Participatory Architecture -- Theories of Participation -- Participation and Agency -- Citizens' Will -- Consensus and Discontent -- Theories of Contestation -- The Global -- Conflict -- Aesthetics' Dissensus -- Mediating Theories -- Praxis -- Community Gardening -- Expanding the Role of the Architect -- Anti-statism -- Personalization -- PART THREE Languages of Architecture -- The Political as the Symbolic -- Architecture and Symbolism -- The Symbolic Constitution of Society -- Architecture's Political Symbolism -- Collège de Sociologie -- Aesthetics and Politics -- Architectural Opposition -- Urban Form -- After '68 -- Spatial and Societal Organization -- Urban Form and Economic Organization -- Reformist Architecture -- 'Vulgar' Architecture, 'Vulgar' Politics -- The Semiotics of Architecture -- Empty Signifiers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index