Charmain Levy is Professor at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada, where she teaches International Development Studies.Marco Alberio is Professor of Economic and Labour Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Italy.

This collective work offers an international audience a richly documented and analytical study of urban commons in Italy, in all their diversity and inventiveness. It is a major contribution to the global debate on commons, conceived in their dual dimension of conflict and construction. Since the Rodotà Commission, Italy has become a vast laboratory for urban commons. This book is the best testimony to date, both scientifically and in terms of its commitment. Italian cities are the scene of a vital struggle between capitalist control (speculation, gentrification, overtourism) and the citizenship of the commons. It is this struggle that gives this scientifically rigorous book its universal dimension.

• Introduction; Marco Alberio and Charmain LevyChapter 1. The ‘Expressive’ Function of Urban Commons; Antonio PutiniChapter 2. Unveiling “Opposition and Territorial Commoning”: Insights from the Self-Managed Places of Rome; Simone RanocchiariChapter 3. Commons as Utopias of Care: The Case of the Social Centre Lucha; Ilaria PittiChapter 4. The Commons as a Form of Urban Citizenship: From Post-Capitalist Resistance to Community Cohesion in Bologna; Charmain Levy, Marco Alberio, and Anna Rita PariniChapter 5. A Fleeting Utopia: Artistic Imagination and the Ephemerality of the Commons in Turin; Marco Rossi and Antonio VescoChapter 6. A School as a Common: How Community Participation Can Improve a Public Service and Transform it into a Common; Chiara BelingardiChapter 7. Communities and Common Consciousness: Exploring Commonalities for Pionta Park; Francesca Bianchi and Gozde YildizChapter 8. Shared Administration of the Commons and the Challenge of Urban Nature: The Case Study of Bologna; Roberta Bartoletti and Franca FaccioliChapter 9. Rethinking Top-Down Approaches in the Ethics of Co-Design: The Case of Reggio Emilia Collaborative Governance Model; Irene Manzini Ceinar, Nicoletta Levi, and Giulia SgarbiChapter 10. Regeneration of Urban Commons and the Role of Culture: Bologna as a Case Study; Giulia Allegrini, Teresa Carlone, and Roberta PaltrinieriChapter 11. Renewable Energy Communities: What Transformative Potential for Local Areas?; Domenica Farinella and Monica Musolino

Charmain Levy is Professor at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada, where she teaches International Development Studies.Marco Alberio is Professor of Economic and Labour Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Italy.

This collective work offers an international audience a richly documented and analytical study of urban commons in Italy, in all their diversity and inventiveness. It is a major contribution to the global debate on commons, conceived in their dual dimension of conflict and construction. Since the Rodotà Commission, Italy has become a vast laboratory for urban commons. This book is the best testimony to date, both scientifically and in terms of its commitment. Italian cities are the scene of a vital struggle between capitalist control (speculation, gentrification, overtourism) and the citizenship of the commons. It is this struggle that gives this scientifically rigorous book its universal dimension.

• Introduction; Marco Alberio and Charmain LevyChapter 1. The ‘Expressive’ Function of Urban Commons; Antonio PutiniChapter 2. Unveiling “Opposition and Territorial Commoning”: Insights from the Self-Managed Places of Rome; Simone RanocchiariChapter 3. Commons as Utopias of Care: The Case of the Social Centre Lucha; Ilaria PittiChapter 4. The Commons as a Form of Urban Citizenship: From Post-Capitalist Resistance to Community Cohesion in Bologna; Charmain Levy, Marco Alberio, and Anna Rita PariniChapter 5. A Fleeting Utopia: Artistic Imagination and the Ephemerality of the Commons in Turin; Marco Rossi and Antonio VescoChapter 6. A School as a Common: How Community Participation Can Improve a Public Service and Transform it into a Common; Chiara BelingardiChapter 7. Communities and Common Consciousness: Exploring Commonalities for Pionta Park; Francesca Bianchi and Gozde YildizChapter 8. Shared Administration of the Commons and the Challenge of Urban Nature: The Case Study of Bologna; Roberta Bartoletti and Franca FaccioliChapter 9. Rethinking Top-Down Approaches in the Ethics of Co-Design: The Case of Reggio Emilia Collaborative Governance Model; Irene Manzini Ceinar, Nicoletta Levi, and Giulia SgarbiChapter 10. Regeneration of Urban Commons and the Role of Culture: Bologna as a Case Study; Giulia Allegrini, Teresa Carlone, and Roberta PaltrinieriChapter 11. Renewable Energy Communities: What Transformative Potential for Local Areas?; Domenica Farinella and Monica Musolino