Screen LibraryUrban commons : moving beyond state and market /
This volume examines various key topics of urban commons theoretically and empirically through a wide spectrum of international case studies providing perspectives from a variety of cities as diverse as Berlin, Hyderabad and Seoul. A wider discussion of commons in current scientific and activist lit...
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Birkhauser,
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| Publisher Address: | Basel/Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Bauwelt fundamente;
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
This volume examines various key topics of urban commons theoretically and empirically through a wide spectrum of international case studies providing perspectives from a variety of cities as diverse as Berlin, Hyderabad and Seoul. A wider discussion of commons in current scientific and activist literature from housing, public space, to urban infrastructure, is explored through the lens of the urban condition. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(244pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 50 schw.-w. Abb. |
| ISBN: | 9783038214953 |
| Index Number: | NA9053 |
| CLC: | TU984-532 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface Seizing the (Every)Day: Welcome to the Urban Commons! / Urban Commons Dissident Practices in Emancipatory Spaces / Moving Beyond the City: Conceptualizing Urban Commons from a Critical Urban Studies Perspective / The Complexity of Urban Commoning from a Psychological Perspective -- Defending Space in a Changing Urban Landscape A Study on Urban Commons in Hyderabad, India / Overcoming Privatized Housing in South Korea: Looking through the Lens of "Commons" and "the Common" / Uncommon Claims to the Commons: Homeless Tent Cities in the US / Creating and Appropriating Urban Spaces The Public versus the Commons: Institutions, Traditions, and Struggles in the Production of Commons and Public Spaces in Chile / Acting in Reality within the Cranny of the Real: Towards an Alternative Agency of Urban Commons / From Urban Commons to Urban Planning or Vice Versa? "Planning" the Contested Gleisdreieck Territory / Insurgent Acts of Being-in-Common and Housing in Spain: Making Urban Commons? / Housing as a Common Resource? Decommodification and Self-Organization in Housing Examples from Germany and Switzerland / Reconfiguring Energy Provision in Berlin. Commoning between Compromise and Contestation / The Battle for Necropolis: Reclaiming the Past as Commons in the City of the Dead / Authors -- Backmatter. |