Urban Commons Rethinking the City
Synopsis
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.Book details
- Series:
- Space, Materiality And The Normative Ser.
- Author:
- Christian Borch, Martin Kornberger
- ISBN:
- 9781317702979
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781315780597, 9781138241633, 9781138241633, 9781138017245, 9781138017245, 9781138241633, 9781315780597, 9781138017245
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Pages:
- 186
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2020-02-06
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Copyright by:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology