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Common Space

The City as Commons

Associate Professor Stavros Stavrides (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-43516-2 (ISBN)

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Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons – first, to think beyond the notions of public and private space, and then to understand common space not only as space that is governed by all and remains open to all, but that explicitly expresses, encourages and exemplifies new forms of social relations and of life in common.

Through a fascinating, global examination of social housing, self-built urban settlements, street trade and art, occupied space, liberated space and graffiti, Stavrides carefully shows how spaces for commoning are created. Moreover, he explores the connections between processes of spatial transformation and the formation of politicised subjects to reveal the hidden emancipatory potential of contemporary, metropolitan life.

Stavros Stavrides is an architect, activist and associate professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, where he teaches courses on social housing design, as well as a postgraduate course on the social meaning and significations of metropolitan experience. His publications on spatial theory include The Symbolic Relation to Space (1990); Advertising and the Meaning of Space (1996); The Texture of Things (with E. Cotsou, 1996); From the City-Screen to the City-Stage (2002, National Book Award); Suspended Spaces of Alterity (2010); and Towards the City of Thresholds (2010).

Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Commoning Space
1. An Urban Archipelago of Enclosures
2. Expanding Commoning: In, Against and Beyond Capitalism?

Part II: Inhabited Common Spaces
3. Shared Heterotopias: Learning From the History of a Social Housing Complex in Athens
4. Housing and Urban Commoning
5. Metropolitan Streets as Contested Spaces
6. Occupied Squares, Societies in Movement

Part III: Envisaged common spaces
7. Practices of Defacement: Thresholds to Rediscovered Commons
8. Thought-images and Representations of the City as Commons
9. Representations of Space and Representations of Emancipation

Conclusion: Reinventing the City through Commoning

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	In Common
Vorwort	Professor Massimo de Angelis
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-350-43516-3 / 1350435163
ISBN-13	978-1-350-43516-2 / 9781350435162
Zustand	Neuware