Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning

＂Against the Commons underscores how urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a postcapitalist urban planning, one in which the structure of collective spaces is defined by the people who inhabit them＂--

Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago is associate professor of urban planning at the School of Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.