{"title":"Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eÁlvaro Sevilla-Buitrago\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intricate intersections of art, politics, and society with intellectual rigour and incisive critique. His works challenge conventional narratives, inviting readers to reconsider the role of commons and collective spaces in contemporary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Sevilla-Buitrago's books offer thoughtful perspectives that question entrenched systems and inspire dialogue on the possibilities of communal creativity and resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"against-the-commons-by-alvaro-sevilla-buitrago-9781517911768","title":"Against the Commons","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn alternative history of capitalist urbanisation through the lens of the commons\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharacterised by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist encroachment. In a narrative spanning more than three centuries, \u003cem\u003eAgainst the Commons\u003c\/em\u003e provides a radical counterhistory of urban planning that explores how capitalism and spatial politics have evolved to address this challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHighlighting episodes from preindustrial England, New York City and Chicago between the 1850s and the early 1900s, Weimar-era Berlin, and neoliberal Milan, Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago shows how capitalist urbanisation has eroded the egalitarian, convivial life-worlds around the commons. The book combines detailed archival research with provocative critical theory to illuminate past and ongoing struggles over land, shared resources, public space, neighbourhoods, creativity, and spatial imaginaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst the Commons\u003c\/em\u003e underscores the ways urbanisation shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending particular 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 ultimately defined by the people who inhabit them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595518689516,"sku":"9781517911768","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781517911768-against-the-commons.jpg?v=1777898801"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/alvaro-sevilla-buitrago.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}