From Land Ownership to Landed Commons

Edited by Frank Moulaert, Emeritus Professor of Spatial Planning, P&D Research Unit, Faculty of Engineering, KU Leuven, Pieter Van den Broeck, Professor of Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, P&D Research Unit, Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium, Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Greece and Liana Simmons, Political Scientist and Food Activist, Italy

Contents:

Foreword xiv
Bob Jessop
Acknowledgements xvii
List of abbreviations xx
1 Introducing Landed Commons: Building Solidarity
Relations for the Common Right to Land 1
Frank Moulaert, Pieter Van den Broeck, Bernhard
Leubolt, Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Liana Simmons
2 Historical Origins of Property Regimes and Landed
Commons: Classical Thoughts and Common Practices 21
Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Pieter Van den Broeck,
Frank Moulaert
3 From Marxism to Contemporary Institutionalisms in
Landed Commons 48
Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Ide Hiergens, Pieter Van
den Broeck, Frank Moulaert
4 Beyond Dualities In Understanding The Commons:
Debates And Practices 84
Frank Moulaert, Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas, Ide
Hiergens, Liana Simmons
5 Social Relations in Commoning: Towards a Socially
Innovative Perspective to Action Research in Building
Landed Commons 129
Frank Moulaert, Liana Simmons, Constanza Parra
6 From the ThŽorie Des CitŽs to the Practice of Landed Commons 158
Sofia Saavedra Bruno, Matthias Bussels, Pieter Van den
Broeck, Constanza Parra, Frank Moulaert
7 ThŽorie des CitŽs+ in Case Study Analysis 186
Frank Moulaert, Matthias Bussels, Pieter Van den
Broeck, Sofia Saavedra Bruno
8 Building a Landed Commons: Reclaiming space through
slow paths 204
Sofia Saavedra Bruno, Matthias Bussels, Constanza
Parra, Frank Moulaert, Pieter Van den Broeck
9 Building a Landed Commons: Collective Practices for
Organic Food Production 229
Annette Kuhk, Annelies Beyens, Kaat Segers
10 Building a Successful Landed Commons in Contemporary
Flanders: Collectief Goed’s Housing Model 256
Nele Verdonck, Marie Mistiaen, Guy Vloebergh
11 Commoning as Action Research: Concluding Observations 283
Frank Moulaert, Liana Simmons, Pavlos-Marinos
Delladetsimas, Pieter Van den Broeck
Appendix 1 Tips and Tricks on How to Handle Day-To-Day
Action Research 297
Frank Moulaert, Matthias Bussels, Pieter Van den Broeck, Sofia
Saavedra Bruno