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Housing as Commons : Housing Alternatives as Response to the Current Urban Crisis, EPUB eBook

Housing as Commons : Housing Alternatives as Response to the Current Urban Crisis EPUB

Edited by Professor Stavros Stavrides, Penny Travlou

Part of the In Common series

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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.

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