[From the publisher] An investigation of the practice of “commoning”
in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in
our rapidly gentrifying cities.
Carving Out the Commons
theorizes the practice of urban “commoning” in Washington, D.C.,
through an investigation of the city’s limited-equity housing
cooperatives. It asks whether a commons can work in a city where land
and resources are scarce and how strangers who may not share a past or
future come together to create commonly held spaces in the midst of
capitalism.
