ABSTRACT
The profound economic and political changes operated by neoliberalism have fragmented urban life into segregated spaces, imprinted on the appropriation of space and the reproduction of life, leading to the atomization of the city. Driven by exacerbated market rationales, the city has become an impediment to the construction of the common. Nevertheless, the economic, social, and political crisis has roused discussion on the common worldwide, revived as an essential concept to understand the capitalist model of wealth production, but also as an impugner to capital. The common as idea and concept acquires particular intensity as discourse and political principle, drawing attention to new forms of more democratic social cooperation and, thus, to the fundamental role of philosophy of and in the city. Indeed, the ability to think and make the city is closely linked to the possibility of renewing political projects as experiences of the common.
Recognizing that the city is in itself a good as common space, this study contends that making the city implies a collaborative model as a political project, based on essential contributions and references: the relevance of social movements, Benkler’s concept of commons; the link between the concept of common and the idea of production accomplished by a multitude); and the experience of the right to the city as developed first by Lefebvre and later by Harvey.
