Housing as Commons
Housing Alternatives as Response to the Current Urban Crisis
Published on 11. August 2022
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-78699-998-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
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London
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
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978-1-78699-998-6 (9781786999986)
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Housing as Commons
Housing Alternatives as Response to the Current Urban Crisis
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Persons
Penny Travlou is a Lecturer in Cultural Geography and Theory at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Stavros Stavrides is Professor in the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Stavros Stavrides is Professor in the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Content
Introduction: Revisiting the housing question: The potentialities of urban commoning Stavros Stavrides and Penny Travlou
Part I Informal housing, infrastructures and commoning practices
1 Weaving commons in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil): Urgency, recognition, convergence Ana Fernandes, Gloria Cecilia Figueiredo and Gabriela Leandro Pereira
2 Activists infrastructures and commoning 'from below': The case of Cheetah Camp, Mumbai Lalitha Kamath and Purva Dewoolkar
3 Subaltern place as an infrastructure of consolidation: Settling an informal neighbourhood in Mumbai Himanshu Burte
4 Commoning Aboriginal ethno-architecture: Indigenous housing experiences in Australia Angus Cameron and Penny Travlou
5 Feeding together: The revolution starts in the kitchen Marc Gavalda and Claudio Cattaneo
Part II Cooperatives, squats and housing struggles
6 Hybrid commons: Housing cooperatives in Zurich Irina Davidovici
7 Urban commoning and popular power: The 'autonomous neighbourhoods' in Mexico City Stavros Stavrides
8 Berlin and the city as commons Mathias Heyden in conversation with Christian Hiller, Anh-Linh Ngo and Max Kaldenhoff
9 Refugee housing squats as shared heterotopias: The case of City Plaza Athens squat Nikolas Kanavaris
10 The Dandara community-occupation: Destitution-constitution movements towards urban commons in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) Lucia Capanema Alvares, Joao B. M. Tonucci Filho and Joviano Maia Mayer
Part III In defence of the collective right to housing
11 Materializing the self-management: Tracking the commons in Yugoslav housing economy Jelica Jovanovic
12 A Greek activist's reflections on the housing struggles and the movement against foreclosures in Athens Tonia Katerini
13 The power of public participation: Socio-economic impacts of urban development on the local commons in Egypt Mohamed Magdi Hagras
14 From social urbanism to strategies of collective action in Medellin Penny Travlou in conversation with Catalina Ortiz and Harry Smith
15 Housing policy as a form of urban governance: The Barbican Estate and the enclosure of the urban commons Ioanna Piniara
Epilogue: Congregations: On the inhabitation of urban humans AbduMaliq Simone
Index
Part I Informal housing, infrastructures and commoning practices
1 Weaving commons in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil): Urgency, recognition, convergence Ana Fernandes, Gloria Cecilia Figueiredo and Gabriela Leandro Pereira
2 Activists infrastructures and commoning 'from below': The case of Cheetah Camp, Mumbai Lalitha Kamath and Purva Dewoolkar
3 Subaltern place as an infrastructure of consolidation: Settling an informal neighbourhood in Mumbai Himanshu Burte
4 Commoning Aboriginal ethno-architecture: Indigenous housing experiences in Australia Angus Cameron and Penny Travlou
5 Feeding together: The revolution starts in the kitchen Marc Gavalda and Claudio Cattaneo
Part II Cooperatives, squats and housing struggles
6 Hybrid commons: Housing cooperatives in Zurich Irina Davidovici
7 Urban commoning and popular power: The 'autonomous neighbourhoods' in Mexico City Stavros Stavrides
8 Berlin and the city as commons Mathias Heyden in conversation with Christian Hiller, Anh-Linh Ngo and Max Kaldenhoff
9 Refugee housing squats as shared heterotopias: The case of City Plaza Athens squat Nikolas Kanavaris
10 The Dandara community-occupation: Destitution-constitution movements towards urban commons in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) Lucia Capanema Alvares, Joao B. M. Tonucci Filho and Joviano Maia Mayer
Part III In defence of the collective right to housing
11 Materializing the self-management: Tracking the commons in Yugoslav housing economy Jelica Jovanovic
12 A Greek activist's reflections on the housing struggles and the movement against foreclosures in Athens Tonia Katerini
13 The power of public participation: Socio-economic impacts of urban development on the local commons in Egypt Mohamed Magdi Hagras
14 From social urbanism to strategies of collective action in Medellin Penny Travlou in conversation with Catalina Ortiz and Harry Smith
15 Housing policy as a form of urban governance: The Barbican Estate and the enclosure of the urban commons Ioanna Piniara
Epilogue: Congregations: On the inhabitation of urban humans AbduMaliq Simone
Index