Preface Seizing the (Every)Day: Welcome to the Urban Commons!

Territorialized Commons and Social Movements: Legal Appropriations of Collective Spaces in Berlin and Santiago de Chile

“…Through a collaboration between researchers in the Global North and South, it is possible to solve the costs by providing funding from Northern academic institutions to cover the APC, but it places the relationship amongst researchers on an unequal plane and requires careful consideration. This collaboration goes back to Daniel and Markus becoming acquainted in the context of the Urban Commons conference in Berlin in 2013 and subsequent collaborative endeavors (see Kip et al, 2015;Opazo, 2015).…”

“…As Caffentzis (2016) points out: "[i]n the context of widespread struggles to defend against neoliberal assault, radical interest in 'the commons' revived." Many scholars address efforts to establish commoning spaces in urban environments under the term "urban commons" (Borch and Kornberger, 2015;Kip et al, 2015) as a reaction to so-called uneven "austerity urbanism" (Blanco et al, 2019) or "new waves of privatization" (Linebaugh, 2008). Blanco et al (2019) observe three main reactions to austerity urbanism: (1) episodes of social protest (2) spaces of social autonomy following the logic of the commons, and (3) new political subjects and organizational forms.…”

Editorial: Social movements and sustainable urban commons governance

“…Urban commons have recently received considerable attention as new institution of collective action (Dellenbaugh et al, 2015), social innovation (Bianchi, 2020) as product and incubator of social movements (De Angelis, 2017;Colding et al, 2021). Critical urban scholars embrace urban commons as an alternative to neoliberal urban housing strategies (Lamarca, 2015;Bruun, 2016;Nonini, 2017), infrastructure provisioning (McFarlane and Desai, 2016) or the production of public space (Shareable, 2018).…”

Inclusive Urbanism: Advances in research, education and practice

“…Following Elinor Ostrom's groundbreaking "Governing the Commons" (Ostrom 2011), similar publications have appeared in different scientific fields. Within urban studies, the discussion on commons is focused around questions of what "urban" commons are (Dellenbaugh et al 2015), how to map spatial commons (Pelger et al 2016), commons in architecture (Avermaete 2018) and various other topics.…”