Between Boundaries: From Commoning and Guerrilla Gardening to Community Land Trust Development in Liverpool



Thompson, Matthew ORCID: 0000-0002-5691-4851
(2015) Between Boundaries: From Commoning and Guerrilla Gardening to Community Land Trust Development in Liverpool. ANTIPODE, 47 (04). pp. 1021-1042.

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Abstract

Emerging in the cracks of the ownership model are alternatives to state/market provision of affordable housing and public/private‐led regeneration of declining urban neighbourhoods, centred on commoning and collective dweller control. This paper explores how the community land trust model can become an effective institutional solution to urban decline in the context of private property relations. It explores a case study of a CLT campaign in Granby, a particularly deprived inner‐city neighbourhood in Liverpool, England. The campaign seeks to collectively acquire empty homes under conditions of austerity, which have opened up the space for grassroots experimentation with guerrilla gardening, proving important for the campaign in gaining political trust and financial support. This paper discusses the potential of the CLT model as a vehicle for democratic stewardship of place and unpacks the contradictions threatening to undermine its political legitimacy.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: neighbourhood regeneration, community land trusts, housing commons, guerrilla gardening
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 17 Oct 2017 06:42
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 06:53
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12154
Open Access URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/a...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3010239