Housing as Commons (eBook, ePUB)

Housing Alternatives as Response to the Current Urban Crisis
Redaktion: Stavrides, Stavros; Travlou, Penny

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913441012
• Artikelnr.: 63754514

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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, Glória
Cecília 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 Gavaldà 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, João 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