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This collection brings together leading anthropological thinkers on human beings in urban spaces and inequalities therein. The contributors eschew the conceptual confusion between equality ? of opportunity, of access, of the right to compete for whatever goal one chooses to pursue ? and levelling. The discussions offered here develop in the belief that old and emerging forms of social and economic inequality in urban settings need to be addressed in depth, as does the machinery that, as masterfully elucidated by Hannah Arendt’s 1951 work on the politics of understanding totalitarianism, operates behind oppression to sustain power and inequality. This collective effort by a strong field of anthropologists and fellow ethnographically committed social scientists is intended to produce an in-depth understanding of these dynamics across different settings, helping to address comparatively urban socio-economic, cultural and political forms of inequality.