Beschreibung:
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, given that the city may well be conceived as a shared resource. Consequently, the proposed book aims to rethink what a city might be by studying how the notion of the commons opens up new understandings of what urban collectivities are.
Martin Kornberger and Christian Borch: Introduction: Urban Commons 1. Jonathan Metzger: The City is not a Menschenpark: Rethinking the Tragedy of the Urban Commons beyond the Human/Non-Human Divide 2. Leif Jerram: The False Promise of the Commons: Historical Fantasies, Sexuality and the 'Really-Existing' Urban Common of Modernity 3. Orvar Löfgren: Sharing an Atmosphere: Spaces in Urban Commons 4. Patrik Zapata and María José Zapata Campos: Producing, Appropriating, and Recreating the Myth of the Urban Commons 5. Martina Löw: Managing the Urban Commons: Public Interest and the Representation of Interconnectedness 6. Greg M. Nielsen: Mediated Exclusions from the Urban Commons: Journalism and Poverty 7. Maja Hojer Bruun: Community and the Commons: Open Access and Community Ownership of the Urban Commons