What’s so New about New Municipalism?
Are there really innovative elements in the so-called “new municipalism”? What differential characteristics does it present?
Urban Governance and Political Change Under a Radical Left Government: the Case of Barcelona [$]
What significant elements emerge from the experience of “Barcelona en Comú” during its first years of government in the Barcelona city council? Challenges and opportunities.
Municipalities as Enablers in Urban Experimentation
Despite the fact that the municipalities do not have the necessary competencies to address the scale and significance of the problems they face, it is important to understand the political capacities that they can deploy in an enabling logic.
Metropolitan Rebellions and the Politics of Commoning the City
The metropolitan areas as a field of intersection of processes of city making, city occupying and rights claiming.
New Angles on Inequality
A volume devoted to pose two critical questions with respect to inequality: the eruption of far-right politics and the geographic separation between haves and have-nots.
Re-Grounding the City with Polanyi: from Urban Entrepreneurialism to Entrepreneurial Municipalism
The case of Liverpool as an example of de-commodifying land, labour and capital using Polanyi framework.
La Colaboración Público-Comunitaria para Defender lo Común
Analysis of the limits and potential of the new municipalism, in part emerged after the movement of the “Indignados”, in Spain after the experience of government between 2015 and 2019, with a special emphasis on the public-community relationship.
Social Movements in Times of Inequalities: Struggling against Austerity in Europe [$]
This article analyze the role unions have played in the struggles against austerity and increasing inequalities, particularly in the European periphery that suffered the recession’s consequences.
The Right to the City: Conceptual Transformations and Urban Struggles
This article presents a history of the concept of the right to the city.
The Everyday Politics of Urban Transformational Adaptation: Struggles for Authority and the Barcelona Superblock Project [$]
As the vulnerability of cities to the effects of climate change and now with the Covid-19 crisis increases, so does the urgency of and interest in urban transformational adaptation. The question is how “everyday” urban politics shape the multi-scalar political constraints that prevent municipalities from implementing transformational adaptation. In this article they analyze the Poblenou superblock project in Barcelona as an effort to enact transformational land use planning linked with climate adaptation and post-Covid efforts.