This contribution elaborates on the question of exclusion from civil sphere and citizenship in a reference to texts published in previous volumes of Contradictions. In dialogue with the texts of Joseph Grim Feinberg and Engin Isin, it analyzes urban disputes in relation to citizens’ inclusion in and exclusion from processes of decision-making about cities. Citizens here are understood as those who participate in city life and have an influence on how a city looks. Using pragmatic sociology of critique, the contribution examines characteristics of contemporary urban disputes such as the proliferation of the idea of “civilized” debate, overwhelming complexity, weak municipalities lacking means of influence, and domination by consensus. The tactics of exclusion from debates about the city associated with these characteristics are simultaneously tactics of exclusion from the civil sphere.