provides a robust base for education initiatives and future public policy guidance on the protection and use of urban commons as invaluable urban green spaces
offers a unique and strongly interdisciplinary study of urban commons
explores the complex social and political history of the urban common, as well as its legal and cultural status today, using four diverse case studies from within England as exemplars of the distinctively urban common.
will be of great interest to students and scholars of the commons, green spaces, urban planning, environmental and urban geography, environmental studies and natural resource management.