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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795621003321

Autore

Sevilla-Buitrago Álvaro <1978->

Titolo

Against the commons : a radical history of urban planning / / Álvaro Sevilla-­Buitrago

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-4529-6802-0

1-4529-6801-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 pages)

Disciplina

307.1216

Soggetti

City planning

Public spaces

Commons

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Planning as historical project -- Common land and primitive accumulation : English hinterlands and the origin of planning -- The commons of publicity : the rise of urban reform in New York and Chicago -- Shaping community in the world-city : centrality struggles in Weimar Berlin -- The capture of creativity : social movements and neoliberal planning in Milan -- Conclusion: Toward a reappropriation of planning.

Sommario/riassunto

"Against the Commons underscores how urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a postcapitalist urban planning, one in which the structure of collective spaces is defined by the people who inhabit them"--