Description: This issue of New Geographies aims to foreground the significance of political thinking in the process of space production. It proposes the concept of commons as a mode of thinking that challenges assumptions in the design disciplines such as public and private spaces, local and regional geographies, and capital and state interventions.
Brief description: Liang Wang is an architect and urban designer, the Harry der Boghosian Fellow at Syracuse University, and a Doctor of Design candidate at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.