Urban Commons: Rethinking the City

Christian Borch and Martin Kornberger
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Christian Borch: CBS - Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen]
Martin Kornberger: CBS - Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen]

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Abstract: 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.

Date: 2015-01-01
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Published in Routledge, 176 p., 2015, 978-1-138-24163-3

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