Experiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas. In such a context, it becomes crucially important to re-think the need to define common urban worlds “from below". Here, Penny Travlou and Stavros Stavridis trace contemporary practices of urban commoning through which people re-define housing economies.
Connecting to a rich literature on the importance of commons and of practices of commoning for the creation of emancipated societies, the authors discuss whether housing struggles and co-habitation experiences may contribute in crucial ways to the development of a commoning culture. The authors explore a variety of urban contexts through global case studies from across the Global North and South, in search of concrete examples that illustrate the potentialities of urban commoning.
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An examination of the crucial challenges of applying commoning practices to housing.
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction: Revisiting the housing question: The potentialities of urban commoning |
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Part I Informal housing, infrastructures and commoning practices |
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1 Weaving commons in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil): Urgency, recognition, convergence |
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Gldria Cecilia Figueiredo |
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2 Activists infrastructures and commoning `from below': The case of Cheetah Camp, Mumbai |
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3 Subaltern place as an infrastructure of consolidation: Settling an informal neighbourhood in Mumbai |
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4 Commoning Aboriginal ethno-architecture: Indigenous housing experiences in Australia |
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5 Feeding together: The revolution starts in the kitchen |
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Part II Cooperatives, squats and housing struggles |
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6 Hybrid commons: Housing cooperatives in Zurich |
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7 Urban commoning and popular power: The `autonomous neighbourhoods' in Mexico City |
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8 Berlin and the city as commons |
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9 Refugee housing squats as shared heterotopias: The case of City Plaza Athens squat |
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10 The Dandara community-occupation: Destitution-constitution movements towards urban commons in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) |
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Part III In defence of the collective right to housing |
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11 Materializing the self-management: Tracking the commons in Yugoslav housing economy |
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12 A Greek activist's reflections on the housing struggles and the movement against foreclosures in Athens |
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13 The power of public participation: Socio-economic impacts of urban development on the local commons in Egypt |
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14 From social urbanism to strategies of collective action in Medellin |
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15 Housing policy as a form of urban governance: The Barbican Estate and the enclosure of the urban commons |
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| Epilogue: Congregations: On the inhabitation of urban humans |
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| Index |
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Penny Travlou is a Lecturer in Cultural Geography and Theory at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Stavros Stavrides is Professor in the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
