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Urban commons : moving beyond state and market /
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 ass...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gütersloh : Basel :
Bauverlag ; Birkhäuser,
©2015.
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| Colección: | Bauwelt Fundamente ;
154. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Based on the conference took place at the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Sept. 27-28, 2013 --Preface. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783038216612 3038216615 9783038214953 3038214957 9783038215110 3038215112 9783038215912 3038215910 |