Commons

n. A common land or estate; the undivided land belonging to the members of a local community as a whole. Hence, often, the patch of unenclosed or ‘waste’ land which remains to represent that.

Podcasts
Butcher, Ali. "Re-Imagining Urban Space". Filmed January 6, 2015. TED video, 14:12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsh4YzSxSH0.
Golden, Jane, Katharina Grosse, Vie Ricketts-Dhomas, Randy Mason. "Street Art for the Train". Landscape Architecture Magazine Podcast (LAMCAST), October 24, 2016. Video, 4:27. https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2016/10/24/lamcast-street-art-for-the-train-station/.

Texts and other related media



Akers, Joshua, Vincent Béal, and Max Rousseau. "Redefining the City and Demolishing the Rest: The Techno-green Fix in Postcrash Cleveland, Ohio." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 3, no. 1 (2020): 207-27. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2514848619854371
Akers, Joshua, Vincent Béal, and Max Rousseau. "Redefining the City and Demolishing the Rest: The Techno-green Fix in Postcrash Cleveland, Ohio." Image. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 3, 2020. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2514848619854371
Alexander, Frank S. “Land Bank Strategies for Renewing Urban Land.” Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 14, no. 2 (2005): Excerpts.
Alexander, Frank S. “Land Bank Strategies for Renewing Urban Land.” Image. Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 14, 2005.
Fainstein, Susan S. The Just City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010.
Foster, Sheila R., and Christian Iaione. "The City as a Commons." Yale Law & Policy Review 34, no. 2 (2016): Excerpts. https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1698&context=ylpr
Foster, Sheila R., and Christian Iaione. "The City as a Commons." Image. Yale Law & Policy Review 34, 2016. https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1698&context=ylpr
Francis, Jacinta, Billie Giles-Corti, Lisa Wood and Matthew Knuiman. "Creating Sense of Community: The Role of Public Space." Journal of Environmental Psychology 32, no. 4 (2012): 401-09. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266620692_Creating_Sense_of_Community_The_role_of_public_space#read
Groth, Jacqueline, and Eric Corijn. "Reclaiming Urbanity: Indeterminate Spaces, Informal Actors and Urban Agenda Setting." Urban Studies 42.3 (2005): 503-26. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43198269?seq=1
Holston, James, Nancy Postero, Eli Elinoff and Nicole Fabricant. "Metropolitan Rebellions and the Politics of Commoning the City." Anthropological Theory 19, no. 1 (2019): 120-42. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/1463499618812324
Hutton, Jane. "Breathing with Trees: London Plane Trees from Rikers Island to Seventh Avenue, 1959." In Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements, 144-85. 1st ed. Routledge, 2020.
Lanks, Belinda. “Creative Shrinkage.” New York Times Magazine, December 10, 2006. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section1B.t-3.html
Low, Setha, and Alan Smart. "Thoughts about Public Space During Covid‐19 Pandemic." City & Society 32, no. 1 (2020): N/a. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ciso.12260
Mitchell, Don. “The End of Public Space? People’s Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85, No. 1 (1995): 108-133. http://sites.middlebury.edu/igst404/files/2014/01/Mitchell-End-of-Public-Space.pdf
Nolan, Elizabeth P. “Vacant Land Conversion in Detroit, Michigan: A Spatial Analysis of Neighborhood Stabilization and Communal Access.” Master’s Thesis, Harvard Extension School. 2017.
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/33826411/NOLAN-DOCUMENT-2017.pdf?sequence=1

Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
TallBear, Kim. "Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming." Kalfou 6, no. 1 (2019): 24-41.
TallBear, Kim. "Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming." Image. Kalfou 6, 2019. https://tupjournals.temple.edu/index.php/kalfou/article/view/228
Wall, Derek. The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict, and Ecology. The MIT Press, 2014.