Collective action and urban design. Notes on the oppositions to the provision of goods for collective use

Abstract

Studies of collective action and cooperation in the provision of public goods made from a sociological analytical instrument are useful and relevant to both social and political analysis and democratic public policy making. In that sense, thinking on collective action in a broad sense -as the grounds for  the constitution of “the social” and the making of relevant social results Cumming from the interests of various social groups that form “the social”- is and should be of great use to social scientists interested in defining and designing social environments more horizontal and territorially fair. This article recovers some study notes from an investigation that was carried on in some Spanish-American cities, on the aforementioned topics.