BIBFRAME Work

Title

Common space

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Stavrides, Stavros (author)

Subject

• Public spaces--Political aspects (LCSH)
• Öffentliches Gut (GND)
• Society (EFLCH)
• Sociology, Urban (LCSH)
• Commons (FAST)
• Public spaces (FAST)
• Public spaces--Political aspects (FAST)
• Sociologie urbaine (RVM)
• urban sociology (AAT)
• Espaces publics--Aspect politique (RVM)
• Sociology, Urban (FAST)
• Stadtgeografie (GND)
• Öffentlicher Raum (GND)
• Commons (LCSH)
• Espaces publics--Aspect social (RVM)
• Stadtsoziologie (GND)
• Public spaces--Social aspects (LCSH)
• Public spaces--Social aspects (FAST)
• Public spaces (LCSH)
• Stadt (GND)
• Offentliga platser--politiska aspekter (SAO)
• Espaces publics (RVM)
• Offentliga platser--sociala aspekter (SAO)

Language

• eng

Classification

• LCC: NA9053.S6 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)
• DDC: 711.4

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons -- first, to think beyond the notions of public and private space, and then to understand common space not only as space that is governed by all and remains open to all, but that explicitly expresses, encourages and exemplifies new forms of social relations and of life in common. Through a fascinating, global examination of social housing, self-built urban settlements, street trade and art, occupied space, liberated space and graffiti, Stavrides carefully shows how spaces for commoning are created. Moreover, he explores the connections between processes of spatial transformation and the formation of politicised subjects to reveal the hidden emancipatory potential of contemporary, metropolitan life."--Publisher's website.

Table of Contents

part 1. Commoning space -- 1. An urban archipelago of enclosures -- 2. Expanding commoning: in, against and beyond capitalism? -- part 2. Inhabited common spaces -- 3. Shared heterotopias: learning from the history of a social housing complex in Athens -- 4. Housing and urban commoning -- 5. Metropolitan streets as contested spaces -- 6. Occupied squares, societies in movement -- part 3. Envisaged common spaces -- 7. Practices of defacement: thresholds to rediscovered commons -- 8. Thought-images and representations of the city as commons -- 9. Representations of space and representations of emancipation -- Conclusion: reinventing the city through commoning.

Authorized Access Point

Stavrides, Stavros. Common space

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30T17:46:22.982831+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23981679

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• Date: 2026-09-30
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• Description language: eng
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