Urban Commons: Rethinking the City

Christian Borch (Curatore)

Martin Kornberger (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016

This book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of collectivity – their atmospheres, modes of exclusion and self-organization, as well as how they are governed – on the basis of a critical discussion of the notion of urban commons. The idea of the commons has received surprisingly little attention in urban theory, although the city may well be conceived as a shared resource. Urban Commons: Rethinking the City offers an attempt to reconsider what a city might be by studying how the notion of the commons opens up new understandings of urban collectivities, addressing a range of questions about urban diversity, urban governance, urban belonging, urban sexuality, urban subcultures, and urban poverty; but also by discussing in more methodological terms how one might study the urban commons. In these respects, the rethinking of the city undertaken in this book has a critical dimension, as the notion of the commons delivers new insights about how collective urban life is formed and governed.

• Curatore: Christian Borch, Martin Kornberger
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Space, Materiality and the Normative
• Anno: 2016
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 186 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 453 gr.
• EAN: 9781138241633

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