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The Commons and the City:
Density as Private Profit and Collective Care of Resources
Tom Avermaete

Cow grazing on Boston Common near Park Street Church, 1924. © Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
  1. Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

  2. Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons (Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1968).

  3. For examples of these two types of studies, see Mark Swenarton, Tom Avermaete and Dirk Heuvel, Architecture and the Welfare State (London: Routledge, 2015), and Jason Hackworth, The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology and Development in American Urbanism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007).

  4. Anna Betz, ‘Meetings with Remarkable Commoners – Michel Bauwens’, https://www.schoolofcommoning.com/content/school-spreads-its-wings-graceful-inaugural-flight-sets-successful-precedence, accessed 10 June 2021.

  5. For an introduction, see Douglass Shand-Tucci, Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800–1950 (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988).

  6. Mauro Nequirito, La Montagna Condivisa: L’utilizzo Collettivo Dei Boschi E Dei Pascoli in Trentino Dalle Riforme Settecentesche Al Primo Novecento (Milano: Giuffrè, 2010).

  7. Gabriella Corona, ‘The Decline of the Commons and the Environmental Balance in Early Modern Italy’, in Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall, Nature and History in Modern Italy (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010), 89–107.

  8. Ivan Illich, ‘Silence is a commons’, The CoEvolution Quarterly (Winter 1983) 10.

  9. Ibid., 17.

  10. David Bollier, ‘Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm’, in James Gustave Speth and Kathleen Courrier, eds., The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to A Failed Economy (London: Routledge, 2021).

  11. Geddes’ work as city planner is well discussed by Helen E Meller, Patrick Geddes: Social Evolutionist and City Planner (London: Routledge, 1993).

  12. Antoine Picon and Martin Thom, French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

  13. Adolphe Alphand, Les promenades de Paris (Paris: Rothschild, 1873).

  14. Louis Bruyère, Études relatives à l'art des constructions 2 (Paris: Bance, 1825).

  15. Les Annales des ponts et chaussées was published from 1831. For an introduction see Nathalie Montel, Écrire et publier des savoirs au XIXe Siècle: Une revue en construction: les Annales des ponts et chaussées (1831-1866) (Rennes: PU Rennes, 2015).

  16. Normes Agadir 1960, Règlement aux constructions dans la zone sinistrée d’Agadir, Règlement Technique Provisoire (Rabat: Ministère des Travaux Publics, 1960).

  17. Ibid.

Louis Riou and Henri Tastemain, Immeuble A, Agadir, 1961–1963. © David Grandorge
Louis Riou and Henri Tastemain, Immeuble A, Agadir, 1961–1963. © David Grandorge
Cow grazing on Boston Common near Park Street Church, 1924. © Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
Christian Remick, A Prospective View of Part of the Boston Commons, 1726. © Boston Public Library, 08_02_003947
The Water Celebration on Boston Common, October 25, 1848 (lithograph by P. Hyman and David Bigelow). © Library of Congress, LC-DIG-pga-02824
Plans of the open spaces in the Old Town of Edinburgh, 1908. © National Library of Scotland
King’s Wall Garden, Johnston Terrace, c 1910. © The University of Edinburgh, Coll-1167/B/27/10/9
Voies publiques – Avenue de l’Empereur from Adolphe Alphand, Les promenades de Paris (Paris: par J. Rothschild, 1867–1873). © ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Rar 10062, https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-33208
Boulevard Richard Lenoir from Adolphe Alphand, Les promenades de Paris histoire. © ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Rar 10062, https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-33208
Louis Riou and Henri Tastemain, Immeuble A, Agadir, 1961–1963. © David Grandorge
Profils de voies publiques from Adolphe Alphand, Les promenades de Paris histoire. © ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Rar 10062, https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-33208