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How can space be political? Evidently, a few good answers to this question have been obvious to the rulers of the world in the age of cities, and to their architects and urban planners, who knew well what Henri Lefebvre called the “production of space” had to do with what Antonio Gramsci named political hegemony – in both objective and subjective terms. We can see this most clearly with the benefit of some historical distance, as does Kevin Lynch at the outset of Good City Form (1981), by observing not only the material embodiment of political authority in urban space, but also the dialectical unity of urban forms and cosmologies projected by them in the ancient cities of various civilizations. But it was Friedrich Engels who first offered a truly critical perspective on the politics of space at the dawn of industrial capitalism, in The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844:Owing to the curious lay-out of the …