cities

Problematizing Urban Commons: Towards a “Provincialised” Approach

The commons discourse has permeated all facets of human action, like cities, and it has given rise to all kinds of commons , such as urban commons. Despite their popularity, urban commons remain a suggestive and slippery concept. To contribute to a …

Urban Commons and the Production of Alternatives to the Neoliberal City

Within a context of austerity, city governance policies have been devoted to attracting capital either from external sources or by a series of privatisation policies, submitting any kind of social concern to this mercantilist logic. In doing so, …

What Do We Mean When We Talk About Participatory Urbanism? An Analysis Of Different Ways Of Understanding Citizen Participation In Urban Planning

In opposition to the traditional way of conceiving and practising urbanism (only managed by technicians and politicians) and neo- liberal models in which the private sector is getting more importance in the definition of urban space, an alternative …

Citizen Participative Initiatives Within Urbanism. Participative Urbanism, A New Way Of Understanding City And Citizenship In The Configuration Of Public Spaces.

Although urbanism is something that concerns everybody, it has traditionally been something managed only by technicians and politicians and thus, citizens' needs and desires have not been taken into consideration in the decision-taking processes …