Citizen Professionals. Reclaiming Collective Spaces for Work, Living, and Cultural Use

Title: Citizen Professionals. Reclaiming Collective Spaces for Work, Living, and Cultural Use
Published by: Set Margins', Eindhoven
Release Date: 2025
Contributors: Karin CHRISTOF
Genre: architecture, urbanism / építészet, urbanisztika
Pages: 296
ISBN13: 9-789083-579559

9.990 HUF

 

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 community places in an increasingly commercialised urban environment. In this publication, these civic actors are referred to as citizen professionals (CPs).