Essai

Together we make the neighbourhood

Citizen spatial appropriation strategy response in the context of the covid-19 crisis. Case of Madrid self-managed community spaces

Juan Arana

A network of various self-managed community spaces played a crucial role in the citizen-led response to the social crisis during the first months of the COVID-19 crisis in the most vulnerable neighbourhoods in the periphery of Madrid. Nevertheless, such community spaces are under a precarious situation due to recurrent threats of closure from different administrations. It is therefore crucial to make visible the importance posed by such spaces in the construction of more resilient, equitable, and caring neighbourhoods. To that end, we propose the definition of a theoretical model...