Main entry:

Stavrides, Stavros, author.

Title & Author:

Common space : the city as commons / Stavros Stavrides.

Publication:

London : Zed Books, 2016.

Description:

xiv, 303 pages ; 22 cm.

Series:

In common

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-294) and index.
Pt. 1. Commoning space -- 1. An urban archipelago of enclosures -- 2. Expanding commoning: in, against and beyond capitalism? -- pt. 2. Inhabited common spaces -- 3. Shared heterotopias: learning from the history of a social housing complex in Athens -- 4. Housing and urban commoning -- 5. Metropolitan streets as contested spaces -- 6. Occupied squares, societies in movement -- pt. 3. Envisaged common spaces -- 7. Practices of defacement: thresholds to rediscovered commons -- 8. Thought-images and representations of the city as commons -- 9. Representations of space and representations of emancipation -- Conclusion: reinventing the city through commoning.

Summary:

"Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons -- first, to think beyond the notions of public and private space, and then to understand common space not only as space that is governed by all and remains open to all, but that explicitly expresses, encourages and exemplifies new forms of social relations and of life in common. Through a fascinating, global examination of social housing, self-built urban settlements, street trade and art, occupied space, liberated space and graffiti, Stavrides carefully shows how spaces for commoning are created. Moreover, he explores the connections between processes of spatial transformation and the formation of politicised subjects to reveal the hidden emancipatory potential of contemporary, metropolitan life."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781783603282 (hardbound)
1783603283 (hardbound)
9781783603275 (paperback)
1783603275 (paperback)
(pdf)
9781783603299
1783603291
(epub)
9781783603305
1783603305
(mobi)
9781783603312
1783603313

Subject:

Public spaces.
Commons.
Public spaces Social aspects.
Public spaces Political aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
Espaces publics.
Espaces publics Aspect social.
Espaces publics Aspect politique.
Sociologie urbaine.
urban sociology.
Society.
Stadt
Stadtgeografie
Öffentlicher Raum
Öffentliches Gut
Stadtsoziologie
Offentliga platser sociala aspekter.
Offentliga platser politiska aspekter.

Added entries:

In common (Zed Books)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293002
Call No.: BIB 237600
Status: Available