Towards an urban agenda of the commons: a case study of the political demands of the urban commons in Barcelona
Abstract
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. As a result, it is difficult to assess their impact on the production of a more socially just city. Through a transversal analysis, this article explores the evolution of 28 urban commons in the Barcelona of the early 21st century. There are two main contributions of this innovative approach: the reduction of the existing imbalances between the theory and the existing practices; and the characterization of their urban agenda to generate processes of social and urban transformation as well as its limitations and potentialities
Carlos Cámara-Menoyo
Architect. PhD. Lecturer. Life-long Learner. Transdisciplinary.
I love learning, teaching and researching, as well as sharing and visualizing data, specially with maps. I have a technical and social background and my multiple research interests are centered around the commodifications between cities, technology and society within informationalism and free culture paradigm. So far, I have applied that approach on the topic of social and spatial inequities.
