Commoning the city : empirical perspectives on urban ecology, economics and ethics / edited by Derya Özkan and Güldem Baykal Büyüksarac.

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction: towards an ethos for commoning the city
Commoning urban nature
Claims to urban land: beyond public and private property
Responses to precarity
Ethos of care: an emergent culture of commoning
References
PART 1: Commoning urban nature
1. Racial capitalism and a tentative commons: urban farming and claims to space in post-bankruptcy Detroit
"New Detroit"

Reproducing property disparity through the state
Detroit's "civic commons"
Commons and land access
Enclosure
Black geographies
Bibliography
2. The politics of food: commoning practices in alternative food networks in Istanbul
Food communities in Istanbul
AFN members as commoners
Impact of commoning practices
AFNs as open-ended processes of commoning
References
3. Insurgent ecologies: rhetorics of resistance and aspiration in Yedikule, Istanbul's ancient market garden (2014-2018)
Walking among weeds
Rupture of the market gardens

Yedikule in motion: becoming an urban commons?
A proletarian workplace
Yedikule as urban commons: "the problem is not the gardens, but open space"
A garden of world historical significance: fashioning a global commons
Designing a public place within a conflict zone
Do the gardeners speak?
Remains of the day: reflections on a struggle
A weedy hope
Bibliography
4. "A revolution under our feet": food sovereignty and the commons in the case of Campi Aperti
Food sovereignty: concept and practice
Campi Aperti
Campi Aperti as a commons

The governance structure in Campi Aperti
Practicing food sovereignty with agro-ecological commons
Bibliography
PART 2: Claims to urban land: beyond public and private property
5. Urban commoning and the right not to be excluded
The right not to be excluded
Urban manifestations of the RN2BE
Conclusion
Bibliography
6. From graveyards to the "people's gardens": the making of public leisure space in Istanbul
Taksim municipal garden
From sprawling promenades to fenced-in gardens
Taksim Republican Square and I?nönü Esplanade (Gezi Park)
Conclusion
Bibliography

7. "Time to protect Kyrenia": defending the right to landscape in northern Cyprus
Situating Kyrenia in space and time
The rule of decrees and tourism development in Kyrenia
Commoning and the Kyrenian landscape
Kyrenia initiative: contesting laws, reclaiming the landscape
The Sea for Free movement: defending the right to leisure and landscape
Conclusion
Bibliography
8. A migrant's tale of two cities: mobile commons and the alteration of urban space in Athens and Hamburg
Engaging with the commons: from commoning praxes to mobile commons