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Urban Commons: Rethinking the City - Space, Materiality and the Normative 1st edition
Urban Commons: Rethinking the City - Space, Materiality and the Normative
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.
196 pages, 11 black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 11, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138241633 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 186 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 19 mm · 302 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Borch, Christian (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) |
| Editor | Kornberger, Martin (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) |