CITIZEN PROFESSIONALS - RECLAIMING COLLECTIVE SPACES

In recent decades, citizens active in urban governance have taken up their roles as autonomous subjects, negotiating with governmental actors on the reuse of vacant buildings while representing the wishes of fellow residents to create self-managed communal spaces that are open to neighbourhood residents. They have appropriated vacant properties and, where possible, constructed new buildings in line with their own interests, those of civic groups, and the common good. They work to create affordable working, living, cultural and commu...[Read more]