In this paper, we want to offer a pluralistic view of what have been defined as urban commons, including the idea of the city itself as a commons. This concept, developed by researchers such as Iaione and Foster, highlights how, among the characteristics of some shared urban resources that mimic open access resources is that they are exhaustible, and thus require some form of governance or management to protect them from a congested and competing urban environment. For other types of resources, the language and framework of the commons functions as a regulation to open up access to an otherwise closed or limited good. This talk wants to emphasise that the urban commons framework is more than a legal tool for making property claims over particular urban assets and resources: it is the concept that allows us to raise the question of how best to manage or govern shared or common resources. Against this background we propose that collaborative and polycentric governance strategies, which are already being employed to manage some natural and urban commons, can be extended to the city level to guide decisions about how city space and its commons are used, who has access to them, and how they are shared among a diverse population. We will explore what City as Commons management might look like by describing two evolving models of what Foster and Iaione defined as “collaborative urban governance”: the shared city and the collaborative city, and by presenting local academic experiences of this model of collective city building.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333004224_La_ciudad_como_bien_comun