"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". Her...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Stauridēs, Stauros 1957- (HerausgeberIn), Travlou, Penny (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2022
Ausgabe:	First Edition
Schlagworte:	Stadtentwicklung Bürgerbeteiligung Wohnungspolitik Wohnen Öffentliches Gut Housing policy Low-income housing Homelessness / Government policy
Zusammenfassung:	"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"--
Beschreibung:	xvi, 316 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781786999986 9781786999979