Urban Commons: Rethinking the City (Space, Materiality And The Normative Ser.)

By: Christian Borch and Martin Kornberger

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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 Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 186 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781317702962
Related ISBNs:: 9781138241633, 9781315780597, 9781138017245
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/27/23
Copyrighted By:: Selection and editorial matter, Christian Borch and Martin Kornberger
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Christian Borch
Edited by:: Martin Kornberger