Urban Commons: Moving beyond State & Market

Conference at the Georg-Simmel Center; Urban space is a commons: simultaneously a sphere of human cooperation and negotiation and its product. Today, we need to understand urban commoning, the creation and maintenance of urban commons, as a dialectical relationship between state and capital. Rather than positing commons as beyond state and market, this conference asks how to move there. In particular, we wish to scrutinize how a focus on commons might advance (or preempt) existing or emergent urban struggles.