The city in common, stories of urban planning.
MetisPresses| N° d'inventaire | 26634 |
| Format | 17 x 22 |
| Détails | 248 p., color illustrations, paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Geneva, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782940711109 |
A resource, a community and established rules of governance to manage the resource fairly: the combination of these three elements constitutes what we now call "the commons".
In recent years, we have witnessed a veritable explosion of experiments and reflections around this theme, which has become a central reference for political, social, economic, and urban struggle and action. However, if we move from the general notion to its application to concrete cases, we realize that little work is devoted to the place that commons occupy in the city and the way in which they contribute to the transformation of its material forms.
Commons are spaces for collective action, but also places and spatial and landscape forms: it can be an African courtyard, the stairwell of an apartment building, an industrial wasteland or an urban vegetable garden. This book studies the modalities of appropriation of these spaces by those who use them and brings into resonance the approach of the social sciences with that of urban planning, in an attempt to answer the question: in what way and under what conditions do commons contribute to harmoniously connecting the city and the town, material forms and ways of living?
With the collaboration of Mathieu Berger, Valentin Bourdon, Bénédicte Grosjean, Christian Laval, Roselyne de Lestrange, Claire Simonneau and Issa Sory.
A resource, a community and established rules of governance to manage the resource fairly: the combination of these three elements constitutes what we now call "the commons".
In recent years, we have witnessed a veritable explosion of experiments and reflections around this theme, which has become a central reference for political, social, economic, and urban struggle and action. However, if we move from the general notion to its application to concrete cases, we realize that little work is devoted to the place that commons occupy in the city and the way in which they contribute to the transformation of its material forms.
Commons are spaces for collective action, but also places and spatial and landscape forms: it can be an African courtyard, the stairwell of an apartment building, an industrial wasteland or an urban vegetable garden. This book studies the modalities of appropriation of these spaces by those who use them and brings into resonance the approach of the social sciences with that of urban planning, in an attempt to answer the question: in what way and under what conditions do commons contribute to harmoniously connecting the city and the town, material forms and ways of living?
With the collaboration of Mathieu Berger, Valentin Bourdon, Bénédicte Grosjean, Christian Laval, Roselyne de Lestrange, Claire Simonneau and Issa Sory.