- 248 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
In this book James Scorer argues that culture remains a force for imagining inclusive urban futures based around what inhabitants of the city have in common. Using Buenos Aires as his case study, Scorer takes the urban commons to be those aspects of the city that are shared and used by its various communities. Exploring a hugely diverse set of works, including literature, film, and comics, and engaging with urban theory, political philosophy, and Latin American cultural studies, City in Common paints a portrait of the city caught between opposing forces. Scorer seeks out alternatives to the current trend in analysis of urban culture to read Buenos Aires purely through the lens of segregation, division, and enclosure. Instead, he argues that urban imaginaries can and often do offer visions of more open communities and more inclusive urban futures.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The City in Common
- 2. Dictatorship, Exclusion, and Remembering in Common
- 3. Surviving the City in Post-Dictatorship Argentine Comics
- 4. Neoliberal Urbanism: Anticommons in Common
- 5. Neighbors and Strangers in Gran Buenos Aires
- 6. Transforming the Commons, Recycling the City
- 7. Shantytowns: Beyond the Pale?
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
- Back Cover