Theorizing the urban housing commons

Nonini, Don

doi:10.3167/fcl.2017.790103

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“…The urban commons is a concept evolving from the economics theory of common-pool resources [12] and subsequently applied to the context of the city [7][8][9][10]40]. This paper draws on the idea of urban commons to conceptualise resident participation in the governance of shared residential landscapes.…”

Section: Urban Commons: a Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In recent years, a significant amount of attention has been focused on the sustainable development of urban landscapes [1][2][3][4], with notable focus on residential settings [5,6]. This coincides with a growing understanding of the opportunities offered by urban commoning [7][8][9][10], an emerging concept describing the collective governance of shared resources in the city by communities [11,12]. The term 'urban commons' has gained momentum in recent years as part of a wider 'new commons movement'.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Conceptual Framework for Urban Commoning in Shared Residential Landscapes in the UK

2019

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This paper uses ideas central to the notion of urban commoning to develop a conceptual framework that can be used to inform the design and management of shared residential landscapes in the UK. Shared residential landscapes provide an important backdrop for everyday social interaction, chance encounters and mutual understanding. A recent revival of the commons concept within the urban context has brought forth new ideas for the design and long-term management of shared urban resources through participation and collective action. However, despite the potential benefits of urban commons for improved quality of urban living, there remains a disconnect between commons and spatial theory, obstructing effective application. Of particular significance are the role of physical space and the design professions in enabling or hindering the collective practice of urban commoning. To address this, this paper reviews the evolution of the commons, the implications for applying them to the urban context, and spatial theories in developing a conceptual framework for their application within the UK residential sector. Finally, the example of cohousing in the UK is drawn upon as an illustration of the urban commons framework. The framework creates a foundation for further research on the design and long-term management of shared residential landscapes as urban commons to benefit the everyday social lives of residential communities.

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Section: Urban Commons: a Reviewmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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A Conceptual Framework for Urban Commoning in Shared Residential Landscapes in the UK

2019

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“…From then on, across much of the world, although different states followed different trajectories, investment in social housing was cut. States shed housing stock, construction and management services either through mass privatisations, as in the former Soviet Union, or by transferring existing social housing to private landlords or housing associations, as in the UK and elsewhere in Europe (Hodkinson et al., 2013; Nonini, 2017; Scanlon et al., 2014). Meanwhile, in the US, home ownership became increasingly linked to class and race and was cast as the means for allowing non-Whites and the working class to achieve the American Dream (Desmond, 2016; Perin, 1977), as through the 1980s and 1990s new lending ‘opportunities’ (later identified as subprime loans) helped low income families to achieve home ownership (e.g.…”

Section: From Social Contract To Reconfigured Relations Between Statementioning

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Political Economy Comes Home: On the Moral Economies of Housing

Alexander

Bruun

Koch

2018

Critique of Anthropology

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Struggles over housing are one of the most pressing social, economic and political issues of our time. Yet questions over access to, plus the redistribution and maintenance of secure housing have only recently begun to be considered anthropologically. Drawing on E.P. Thompson's concept of moral economy, this special issue addresses these questions and considers how contemporary moral economies of housing play out. Citizens try to make their demands for adequate and safe housing heard, but such aspirations are often undermined by, political rhetoric, state officials, loan terms and the law. People claim allegiances to particular moral communities, thus (re)constituting themselves as deserving of secure tenure and proper homes, often in the face of stigma, laws or policies that construct them as the very reverse. By placing fine-grained ethnographic analysis in conversation with the political economy of housing, we redefine housing as an essentially contested domain where competing understandings of citizenship are constructed, fought over and acted out.

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“…A unique combination of creativity and necessity has led to the emergence and recognition of new kinds of commons-including digital commons [10,11], urban commons [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], and food commons [20][21][22]. These exist in parallel and in opposition to the gradual enclosure of material (land, water, seeds, etc.…”

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Community Self-Organizing and the Urban Food Commons in Berlin and New York

Morrow

2019

Sustainability

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Food sharing and food commons have both been raised as possible solutions to unsustainable and unjust urban food systems. This paper draws upon ethnographic research conducted in Berlin and New York to examine self-organizing in community food initiatives that are to varying degrees creating urban food commons by opening up urban space and its fruits to community use, sharing, and governance. In New York, the organization 596 Acres has developed an interactive map of vacant land to help community members self-organize to gain access to, steward, and protect the “lots in their life” for urban growing. In Berlin, the organization foodsharing.de has developed an interactive web platform to decentralize and democratize the logistics of food rescue and redistribution through peer-to-peer gifting and community fridges. The paper examines the possibilities and limitations of socio-technical innovations as “tools for commoning,” for self-organizing imagination, access, care, and governance in urban food commons. The paper contributes to debates on the role of socio-technical innovation in urban food sharing and practices of self-organizing in urban food commons.

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Theorizing the urban housing commons

Cited by 16 publications

References 17 publications

A Conceptual Framework for Urban Commoning in Shared Residential Landscapes in the UK

A Conceptual Framework for Urban Commoning in Shared Residential Landscapes in the UK

Political Economy Comes Home: On the Moral Economies of Housing

Community Self-Organizing and the Urban Food Commons in Berlin and New York

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