Keywords

• Contemporary cities are crossed by two main kinds of insurgent subjectivities
• mutually influencing: human minorities and non-human actants
• things included. As for the first set â€
• “
• children
• elder people
• migrants and foreigners
• anomalous bodies provided with different physical and mental capabilities â€
• “
• it makes way to a â€
• œ
• city of differencesâ€
• 
• claiming a new planning paradigm based on recognition of these forms of citizenship
• regarded as agents of innovation and social transformation. But this process of citizenship expansion is not sufficient
• and other forms of non-human agency reclaim a space. These include animals
• as well as â€
• œ
• thingsâ€
• 
• i.e. actants actively collaborating with human activities and practices. The author argues that itâ€
• ™
• s necessary to widen democracy beyond traditional domains towards interactive practices
• in order to include not just the interests and needs of human beings
• but also the demand for respect and response coming from â€
• œ
• significant othersâ€
• 
• . To support his argument
• he offers an interpretation
• among others
• of Patrick Geddesâ€
• ™
• s early work as a biologist interested in â€
• œ
• disputed organismsâ€
• 
• (i.e. middle-species of animals and vegetables)
• quite ignored but nonetheless as relevant
• according to the author
• as Geddesâ€
• ™
• s better known theories in the field of planning (Cities in evolution)