Urban Commons

Christian Borch is Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His work focuses on crowds, architecture, financial markets and urban theory. His previous books include The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Foucault, Crime and Power: Problematisations of Crime in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2015). Martin Kornberger is Professor of Strategy and Organization at Copenhagen Business School and visiting professor at the Research Institute for Urban Management and Governance at the WU Wien. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Vienna. Amongst other things, his work focuses on urban strategy and governance.

Martin Kornberger and Christian Borch: Introduction: Urban Commons 1. Jonathan Metzger: The City is not a Menschenpark: Rethinking the Tragedy of the Urban Commons beyond the Human/Non-Human Divide 2. Leif Jerram: The False Promise of the Commons: Historical Fantasies, Sexuality and the ‘Really-Existing’ Urban Common of Modernity 3. Orvar Löfgren: Sharing an Atmosphere: Spaces in Urban Commons 4. Patrik Zapata and María José Zapata Campos: Producing, Appropriating, and Recreating the Myth of the Urban Commons 5. Martina Löw: Managing the Urban Commons: Public Interest and the Representation of Interconnectedness 6. Greg M. Nielsen: Mediated Exclusions from the Urban Commons: Journalism and Poverty 7. Maja Hojer Bruun: Community and the Commons: Open Access and Community Ownership of the Urban Commons