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The commons as a contested political idea has been continually
articulated and reproduced in many disciplines and in relation to
specific historical and geographical contexts. Since the 1960s, the
concept of commons has started to play an increasingly important
role in the field of urban studies. While commons are usually
perceived as the material spaces of the city such as streets,
parks, public spaces, etc., they are also perceived as the
immaterial public realm-including subaltern and mainstream culture,
knowledge, language, and modes of sociality. As the commoning
process continuously involves the substance of urban spaces, be it
physical or virtual, the concept of commons has actively
contributed to reshaping spatial imaginaries such as urban islands,
archipelagos, and thresholds. This issue of New Geographies
proposes the concept of commons as a mode of thinking that
challenges assumptions in the design disciplines such as public and
private spaces, local and regional geographies, and capital and
state interventions. It expands the production of space as the
commons into a planetary territory all the way from the intimate
and subjective scale of the body to the connected material and
immaterial spaces. In doing so, NG 12 aims to foreground the
significance of political thinking in the process of space
production, and invites to imagine alternative social relations and
modes of urbanization.
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