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Against the Commons - A Radical History of Urban Planning (Hardcover)
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Against the Commons - A Radical History of Urban Planning (Hardcover)
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An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens
of the commons Characterized by shared, self-managed access to
food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the
commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect
spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist encroachment. In a
narrative spanning more than three centuries, Against the Commons
provides a radical counterhistory of urban planning that explores
how capitalism and spatial politics have evolved to address this
challenge. Highlighting episodes from preindustrial England, New
York City and Chicago between the 1850s and the early 1900s,
Weimar-era Berlin, and neoliberal Milan, Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago
shows how capitalist urbanization has eroded the egalitarian,
convivial life-worlds around the commons. The book combines
detailed archival research with provocative critical theory to
illuminate past and ongoing struggles over land, shared resources,
public space, neighborhoods, creativity, and spatial imaginaries.
Against the Commons underscores the ways urbanization shapes the
social fabric of places and territories, lending particular
awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on
working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history
into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a
postcapitalist urban planning, one in which the structure of
collective spaces is ultimately defined by the people who inhabit
them.
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