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The city is in essence a collectivity that transcends in deeply significant ways the sum of the individual firms and households that represent its constituent atoms. A concept of the commons is sketched out, with special reference to the increasing intersections between the urban commons, as such, and the wider global commons as embodied in various mediascapes. Allusion is made to the significance of these matters for social reproduction and the future of capitalism generally.
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Scott, A.J. (2017). The Urban Commonwealth. In: The Constitution of the City. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61228-7_10
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