The following features have been attributed to urban commons:
● Active role of citizenship (Ferguson, 2014)
● Problematize / pose alternatives to:
– Property regimes (Dzokić & Neelen, 2015; Stavrides, 2015),
– Public institutions’ role (Vianello, 2015),
– Relationship between public and private sectors and alternative economic models (Baviskar &
Gidwani, 2011)
● Concerned by social problems
● A way of exercising the “Right to the city” claimed by Lefebvre in 1968 (Castro-Coma & Martí-
Costa, 2016; de Angelis & Stavrides, 2010; Ferguson, 2014; Harvey, 2012/2013; Observatori Metropolità de
Barcelona, 2014)
R-Urban ( Atelier d’Architecture Autogéreé, Paris). Photo: AAA
Crisis, cities, new urbanisms and commons