Urban Commons

<p>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. <i>Urban Commons: Rethinking the City</i> 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. </p>