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Preface Markus Kip, Majken Bieniok, Mary Dellenbangh, Agnes Katharina Miller, Martin Schwegmann p.7,Seizing the<br/>(Every)Day: Welcome to the Urban Commons! p.9, Perspectives Brigitte Kratzuald Urban Commons -Dissident Practices in<br/>Emancipatory Spaces p.26, Markus Kip Moving Beyond the City: Conceptualizing Urban Commons from a Critical Urban<br/>Studies Perspective p.42, Majken Bieniok The Complexity of Urban Commoning from a Psychological Perspective p.6o,<br/>Community Tobias Kuttler, Angela Jain Defending Space in a Changing Utban Landscape - A Study on Urban Commons in<br/>Hyderabad, India p.72, Didi K. Han, Hajime lmamasa Overcoming Privatized Housing in South Korea: Looking through the<br/>Lens of "Commons" and the Common" p.9I, Manuel Lutz, Uncommon Claims to the Commons: Homeless Tent Cities in the<br/>US p.101, Institutions Daniel Opazo OrtizCreating and Appropriating Urban Spaces - The Public versus the Commons:<br/>Institutions, Traditions, and Struggles in the Production of Commons and Public Spaces in Chile p.117, Ignacio Castillo Ulloa<br/>Acting in Reality within the Cranny of the Real: Towards an Alternative Agency of Urban Commons p.I30,<br/>Agnes Katharina Miller From Urban Commons to Urban Planning - or Vice Versa? <Planning" the Contested Gleisdreieck<br/>Territory p.I48, Melissa Garcia Lamarca, Insurgent Acts of Being-in-Common and Housing in Spain: Making Urban Commons?.<br/>p.163, Resources Iro Balmer, Tobias BernetHousing as a Common Resource? Decommodification and Self-Organization in<br/>Housing- Examples from Germany and Switzerland p.178, Sören Becker, Ross Beveridge, Matthias Naumann Reconfiguring<br/>Energy Provision in Berlin. Commoning between Compromise and Contestation p.196, AK Thompson The Battle for<br/>Necropolis: Reclaimning the Past as Commons in the City of the Deadp.214, Authors p.236. |
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Urban space is a commons: simultaneously a sphere of human cooperation and negotiation and its product. Understanding urban space as a commons means that the much sought-after productivity of the city precedes rather than results from strategies of the state and capital. This approach challenges assumptions of urbanization as capital-driven, an idea which resonates with a range of recent urban social movements, from the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement to the "Right to the City" alliance. However commons exist in a tense relationship with state and market, both of which continually seek to exploit and control them. Initiatives to create "commons" are welcomed and even facilitated by governments in order to (re-)valorize urban space and lessen the impacts of economic restructuring, while, at the same time, the creative and reproductive potential of the urban commons is undermined by continuing attempts to commodify them. This volume examines these topics 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. |
