Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital troubles the enduring narrative binary of town and country. Borders between these two terrains have always morphed and slipped around each other theoretically, politically, economically, and socially, yet the narrative of the urban/rural divide persists. Indigenous land dispossession and reclamation, capital accumulation in the form of real-estate assets, labour, and technological development are all obscured by this persistent fiction.
Ambient ecosystems commons
Climate change and the need for ecological and social justice require us to think more comprehensively about housing’s relationship to its larger context. What we are calling ambient ecosystems includes public spaces, mobility networks, biodiversity, density, metabolic flows, and the complexity of services. These ambient ecosystems commons, utilizing strong forms of democratic and participatory governance, can overcome scarcity and achieve the ambition for shared equity and equitable housing for all.