Urban commons : moving beyond state and market / Mary Dellenbaugh [and four others] (eds.).

Based on the conference took place at the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Sept. 27-28, 2013 --Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

Urban space is a commons: simultaneously a sphere of human cooperation and negotiation and its product. Understanding urban space as a commons means that the much sought-after productivity of the city precedes rather than results from strategies of the state and capital. This approach challenges assumptions of urbanization as capital-driven, an idea which resonates with a range of recent urban social movements, from the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement to the "Right to the City" alliance. However commons exist in a tense relationship with state and market, both of which continually seek to exploit and control them. Initiatives to create "commons" are welcomed and even facilitated by governments in order to (re- )valorize urban space and lessen the impacts of economic restructuring, while, at the same time, the creative and reproductive potential of the urban commons is undermined by continuing attempts to commodify them. This volume examines these topics theoretically and empirically through a wide spectrum of international case studies providing perspectives from a variety of cities as diverse as Berlin, Hyderabad and Seoul. A wider discussion of commons in current scientific and activist literature from housing, public space, to urban infrastructure, is explored through the lens of the urban condition.

Preface Seizing the (Every)Day: Welcome to the Urban Commons!; Perspectives; Urban Commons -- Dissident Practices in Emancipatory Spaces; Moving Beyond the City: Conceptualizing Urban Commons from a Critical Urban Studies Perspective; The Complexity of Urban Commoning from a Psychological Perspective; Community; Defending Space in a Changing Urban Landscape -- A Study on Urban Commons in Hyderabad, India; Overcoming Privatized Housing in South Korea: Looking through the Lens of "Commons" and "the Common"; Uncommon Claims to the Commons: Homeless Tent Cities in the US; Institutions

Creating and Appropriating Urban Spaces -- The Public versus the Commons: Institutions, Traditions, and Struggles in the Production of Commons and Public Spaces in ChileActing in Reality within the Cranny of the Real: Towards an Alternative Agency of Urban Commons; From Urban Commons to Urban Planning -- or Vice Versa? "Planning" the Contested Gleisdreieck Territory; Insurgent Acts of Being-in-Common and Housing in Spain: Making Urban Commons?; Resources; Housing as a Common Resource? Decommodification and Self-Organization in Housing -- Examples from Germany and Switzerland

Reconfiguring Energy Provision in Berlin. Commoning between Compromise and ContestationThe Battle for Necropolis: Reclaiming the Past as Commons in the City of the Dead; Authors

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