Housing as Commons : Housing Alternatives as Response to the Current Urban Crisis (Paperback)

Housing as Commons: An Introduction Revisiting the Housing Question: The Potentialities of Urban Commoning Authors: Stavros Stavrides and Penny Travlou PART 1: Informal Housing, Infrastructures and Commoning Practices CHAPTER 1 Weaving Commons in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil): urgency, recognition, convergence Authors: Ana Fernandes, Gloria Cecilia Figueiredo, Gabriela Leandro Pereira CHAPTER 2 Activists Infrastructures and Commoning "from Below": The Case of Cheetah Camp, Mumbai Authors:Lalitha Kamath and Purva Dewoolkar CHAPTER 3 Subaltern place as an infrastructure of consolidation: settling an informal neighbourhood in Mumbai Author: Himanshu Burte CHAPTER 4 Commoning Aboriginal Ethno-Architecture: Indigenous Housing Experiences in Australia Authors: Angus Cameron with Penny Travlou CHAPTER 5 Feeding together: the revolution starts in the kitchen Authors: Marc Gavalda and Claudio Cattaneo PART 2: Cooperatives, squats and housing activism CHAPTER 6 Hybrid commons: Housing cooperatives in Zurich Author: Irina Davidovici CHAPTER 7 Urban commoning and popular power: the "autonomous neighborhoods" in Mexico city Author: Stavros Stavrides CHAPTER 8 Berlin and the City as Commons Authors: Mathias Heyden CHAPTER 9 The Dandara Community-Occupation: Destitution-Constitution Movements Towards Urban Commons in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) Authors: Lucia Capanema Alvares, Joao B. M. Tonucci Filho and Joviano Maia Mayer CHAPTER 10 Refugee Housing Squats as Shared Heterotopias: The Case of City Plaza Athens Squat Author: Nikolas Kanavaris PART 3: Housing policies, urban strategies and the commons CHAPTER 11 Materializing the Self-Management: Tracking the Commons in Yugoslav Housing Economy Author: Jelica Jovanovic CHAPTER 12 A Greek activist's reflections on the housing struggles and the movement against foreclosures in Athens. Author: Tonia Katerini CHAPTER 13 The Power of Public Participation: Socioeconomic Impacts of Urban Development on the Local Commons in Egypt Author: Mohamed Magdi Hagras CHAPTER 14 From social urbanism to strategies of collective action in Medellin Authors: Penny Travlou in conversation with Catalina Ortiz and Harry Smith Epilogue Congregations: On the inhabitation of urban humans Author: AbduMaliq Simone