{"product_id":"against-the-commons-a-radical-history-of-urban-planning-hardback-9781517911751","title":"Against the Commons; A Radical History of Urban Planning (Hardback) 9781517911751","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAgainst the Commons\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Radical History of Urban Planning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eÁlvaro Sevilla-Buitrago (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517911751\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 September 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 27 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Commons\u003c\/i\u003e rewrites the history of capitalist urbanization since the eighteenth century by focusing on the role of planning in struggles around social reproduction. This fresh and exciting book is an invitation to scholars, students, and practitioners in planning, architecture, and urban studies to rethink the past and the future of urbanization.\"-Łukasz Stanek, University of Manchester \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Commons\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most important, original, and radical contributions to planning theory and history in the past fifty years. While \u0026amp;Aacute;lvaro Sevilla-Buitrago offers a sharply critical perspective on the project of planning under capitalism, he also provides an inspiring call for new forms of collective self-management that protect, extend, and empower the commons.\"-Neil Brenner, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Commons \u003c\/i\u003edraws attention to the sparsely studied negative agency of urban planning and capitalist urbanization in the demise of achieving improvements associated with the commons, such as collectivization of society and creation of communal space.\" -\u003ci\u003eEnvironment \u0026amp; Urbanization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Commons\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly ground-breaking work, which both deepens our understanding of the genealogies of urban planning and opens up several avenues for discussion and critique.\" -\u003ci\u003eHousing Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist encroachment. In a narrative spanning more than three centuries, \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Commons\u003c\/i\u003e provides a radical counterhistory of urban planning that explores how capitalism and spatial politics have evolved to address this challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighlighting episodes from preindustrial England, New York City and Chicago between the 1850s and the early 1900s, Weimar-era Berlin, and neoliberal Milan, \u0026amp;Aacute;lvaro Sevilla-Buitrago shows how capitalist urbanization has eroded the egalitarian, convivial life-worlds around the commons. The book combines detailed archival research with provocative critical theory to illuminate past and ongoing struggles over land, shared resources, public space, neighborhoods, creativity, and spatial imaginaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Commons\u003c\/i\u003e underscores the ways urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending particular 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 ultimately defined by the people who inhabit them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619255906584,"sku":"9781517911751","price":70.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/against-the-commons-a-radical-history-of-urban-planning-hardback-9781517911751","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}