Urban Commons

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Towards an urban agenda of the commons: a case study of the political demands of the urban commons in Barcelona

Urban commons is still an ambiguous concept from a theoretical standpoint and diverse in empirical terms, despite its popularity among urban social movements and academic studies. …

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo

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 …

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo

The Precariousness Of Urban Commons In The Face Of European Public Law

Urban commons are a form of conceptualisation and self-management of the production of space that presents itself as a divergent alternative to the legal-economic dichotomy Public …

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Jorge León-Casero
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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 …

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo
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The commodifications between ICTs and public space

Can Information and Communication Technologies be tools for observing and acting on heritage and public space from a contemporary perspective? If, on the one hand, ICTs are very …

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo
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The Spatial Apropriation of the Urban Commons

Urban commons are one of the areas in which the spatiality of social movements on a local scale is most clearly evident. Although the way in which they make the appropriation of …

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo
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Commoning the City and the Grassroots

In the last decade, bottom-up initiatives of social transformation lead by urban social movements have been articulated around the notion of Urban Commons in cities across the …

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo

Urban Commons: Lessons from Barcelona at the beginning of 21st century

Ponencia de introducción al concepto de los comunes urbanos dentro del marco de la jornada de trabajo Stadt-Teilen – Neue öffentliche Räume und nachbarschaftliche Gemeingüter, …

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo
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Urban Commons

Personal Research line about urban commons as alternative constructions of fairer cities and societies.

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IND+I Science award to Metropolitan Innovation Policies

Although it had officially been announced several days ago, the IND+I Science1 awards ceremony took place yesterday, where I received the prize of the category “Metropolitan …

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo