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Diversity and Challenges of the Urban Commons: A Comprehensive Review Cover

Diversity and Challenges of the Urban Commons: A Comprehensive Review

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|Apr 2021

Figures & Tables

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Figure 1

The new commons in the urban context, adapted from Hess (2008). Highlighted are the commons types added by us. In light grey font are the new commons not found in our literature review.

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Figure 2

Weight of each research field in our urban commons corpus, expressed as a percentage of all articles and books, either in Scopus (left) or WebOfScience (right) database.

Table 1

Summary of the practical analysis of our urban commons corpus.

BENEFITSCHALLENGESSUPPORTS
institutional
  • governance structure: rigidity, bureaucracy

  • autonomous governance

  • land availability and access

  • group size and scaling-up

  • direct/indirect institutional support

  • beneficial multi-actor co-operation

socio-economic
  • livelihood

  • economy: value co-creation and shield to crises

  • recreation and health

  • collective identity

  • empowerment

urban commons as a response to neo-liberal threats
  • social tensions

  • conflicting values and norms

  • financial viability

  • knowledge quality and mismanagement

  • civic consciousness

  • media communication

  • expert and peer knowledge provision

ecosystem
  • ecosystem services: biodiversity, soil fertility, de-pollution, climate mitigation

  • urbanisation: scarce land and pollution

  • evolving interactions of urban society with urban greenery

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Figure 3

Urban commons sectors by proportion of occurrence.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1033 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 25, 2020
Accepted on: Jan 15, 2021
Published on: Apr 1, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2021 Arthur Feinberg, Amineh Ghorbani, Paulien Herder, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.