“In recent years, urban uprisings, insurrections, riots, and occupations have expressed both desperation as well as the joy of reclaiming collective life and proposing a different way of composing a common world. At the root of these rebellious moments lies the threshold. Thresholds are the spaces to be crossed from a city of domination and exploitation to a common world of liberation. A city of thresholds is characterized by sudden dehierarchizations of the territory, the suspension of time, and the playful emergence of hope.”*
TOWARDS THE CITY OF THRESHOLDS is a “pioneering and ingenious study of these new forms of socialization and uses of space—self-managed and communal—that passionately reveals cities as the sites of manifest social antagonism as well as spatialities of emancipation. Activist and architect Stavros Stavrides describes the powerful reinvention of politics and social relations stirring everywhere in our urban world and analyzes the theoretical underpinnings present in these metropolitan spaces and how they might be bridged to expand the commons.”*
Stavros Stavrides, Towards the City of Thresholds (Brooklyn:Common Notions, 2018).
Stavros Stavrides.
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