Housing as Commons: Housing Alternatives as Response to the Current Urban Crisis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781786999986)

Experiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas. In such a context, it becomes crucially important to re-think the need to define common urban worlds "from below". Here, Penny Travlou and Stavros Stavridis trace contemporary practices of urban commoning through which people re-define housing economies.

Connecting to a rich literature on the importance of commons and of practices of commoning for the creation of emancipated societies, the authors discuss whether housing struggles and co-habitation experiences may contribute in crucial ways to the development of a commoning culture. The authors explore a variety of urban contexts through global case studies from across the Global North and South, in search of concrete examples that illustrate the potentialities of urban commoning.


Author: Stavros Stavrides
ISBN-10: 1786999986
ISBN-13: 9781786999986
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2022
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d