Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing urban cosmopolitics : multiplicity and the search for a common world / Ignacio Farías & Anders Blok -- Saving (in) a common world : cosmopolitical instances from a low budget urbanities perspective / Birke Otto, Alexa Färber & Heike Derwanz -- Infrastructural becoming : sanitation, cosmopolitics and the (un)making of urban life at the margins / Michele Lancione & Colin McFarlane -- Im/mutable im/mobiles : from the socio-materiality of cities towards a differential cosmopolitics / Michael Guggenheim -- Exploring urban controversies on retail diversity : an inquiry into the cosmopolitics of markets in the city / Alexandre Mallard -- Manifestations of the market : public audiences, and the cosmopolitics of voice in Buenos Aires / Nicholas D'Avella -- The politics and aesthetics of assembling : (un)building the common in Hackney Wick, London / Isaac Marrero-Guillamón -- Matters of sense : pre-occupation in Madrid's popular assemblies movement / Adolfo Estalella & Alberto Corsín Jiménez -- The aesthetic composition of a common memory : atmospheres of revalued urban ruins / Hanna Katharina Göbel -- The cosmopolitics of "niching" : rendering the city habitable along infrastructures of mental health care / Milena D. Bister, Martina Klausner & Jörg Niewöhner -- Water and air : territories, tactics and the elemental textility of urban cosmopolitics / Manuel Tironi & Nerea Calvillo -- Whose urban cosmos, which urban cosmopolitics? : assessing the route travelled and the one ahead / Anders Blok & Ignacio Farías.