Common Space - The City as Commons

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01/13/20 • 88 min

Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left

Part 2 of Red Library's Lost Futures Series WE ARE BACK. We are joined in the library by a new guest and patron of the show, Comrade Tiberius, to lead us through Common Space: The City as Commons by Stavros Stavrides. In the discussion, we talk about core elements in Stavrides' conception of the city as a common space such as the relationship between spaces and the people they create, modernism, the distinction between public and private, and what it would mean to struggle for a commons for us all. Further Reading/References

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