1 de 5 REVISTA DE GESTÃO AMBIENTAL E SUSTENTABILIDADE – GeAS JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT & SUSTAINABILITY _____________________________________________________________ Rev. Gest. Amb. e Sust. – GeAS. J. Environ. Manag. & Sust. 10, Special Issue, e19831, p. 1-5, 2021 https://doi.org/10.5585/geas.v10i1.19831 e-ISSN: 2316-9834 Special Issue - Urban commons in dispute Guest Editor: Maria Carolina Maziviero Urban commons in dispute Editorial Cintia de Castro Marino 1 Maria Carolina Maziviero 2 1 PhD in Architecture and Urbanism. Nove de Julho University- UNINOVE. São Paulo, SP – Brazil. cintiacmarino@gmail.com 2 PhD in Architecture and Urbanism at University of São Paulo (FAUUSP 2013). Associate Professor at Federal University of Paraná UFPR and Postgraduate Program in Urban Planning (PPU UFPR). Curitiba, PR – Brazil. maziviero@ufpr.br / mcarolmazi@hotmail.com Cite como American Psychological Association (APA) Marino, C. de C., & Maziviero, M. C. (2021, Special Issue, April). Urban commons in dispute. Editorial. Rev. Gest. Ambient. e Sust. - GeAS, 10, e19831, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.5585/geas.v10i1.19831. There is growing interest in the field of urban studies on commons, both in theoretical approaches and in studies that describe experiences approaching their effective use. The idea of the common as a driver in the struggle for a world against privatizations and fences – that is, beyond the logic of merchandise and private property – is taken up in the political imagery of movements and activists from the alterglobalism of the 1990s and gets consolidated with the new cycle of global protests that took place during the second decade of the 21 st century. Common goods consist on that which must be protected from capitalist appropriation and the logic of ownership (of the State or of the market): resources, spaces, ways of life, knowledge, and so on. It is also a political principle – not to be granted, but to be instituted. This means that something is placed “in common”, something that depends on a constant political act of appropriation, self-management and common action. In addition, the movement of commons does not see the State as an instrument of defense and market regulation. It is a permanent struggle that sees coactivity as a fundamental instrument of political action against capital, in opposition even to the State, which acts as a market partner in capitalism. One of the biggest concerns of the present is that natural resources, which are essential to life – such as water, coasts, rivers and forests are at risk of being fenced and privatized. This concern is no different in the space of cities. Urban commons include so- called public goods and services: parks, transportation, sanitation systems, garbage collection, universities and public schools, etc. The issue of commons is quite broad, not