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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781138017245
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-138-01724-5
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.04.2015
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2015
- Serie: Space, Materiality and the Normative
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 425 g
- Seiten: 186
- Format (B x H x T): 159 x 241 x 17 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt