Common Space

The City as Commons

AvAssociate Professor Stavros Stavrides

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-15
Mått:143 x 222 x 28 mm
Vikt:502 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:In Common
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Medarbetare:Massimo deAngelis
ISBN:9781783603282

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Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Stavros Stavrides is an architect, activist and associate professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, where he teaches courses on social housing design, as well as a postgraduate course on the social meaning and significations of metropolitan experience. His publications on spatial theory include The Symbolic Relation to Space (1990); Advertising and the Meaning of Space (1996); The Texture of Things (with E. Cotsou, 1996); From the City-Screen to the City-Stage (2002, National Book Award); Suspended Spaces of Alterity (2010); and Towards the City of Thresholds (2010).

Recensioner i media

How shall we understand the pulse and power of commoning, the subtle force that is constantly shaping the spaces and experiences of modern cities? Stavros Stavrides provides a rich, erudite exploration of this neglected topic and the potential for human emancipation.

Innehållsförteckning

ForewordIntroductionPart I: Commoning Space1. An Urban Archipelago of Enclosures2. Expanding Commoning: In, Against and Beyond Capitalism?Part II: Inhabited Common Spaces3. Shared Heterotopias: Learning From the History of a Social Housing Complex in Athens4. Housing and Urban Commoning5. Metropolitan Streets as Contested Spaces6. Occupied Squares, Societies in MovementPart III: Envisaged common spaces7. Practices of Defacement: Thresholds to Rediscovered Commons 8. Thought-images and Representations of the City as Commons9. Representations of Space and Representations of EmancipationConclusion: Reinventing the City through Commoning