Peer-reviewed articles
Ferreri, M., Bianchi, I., Pera, M., Calvet-Mir, L., Villamayor Tomás, S., Reguero Jimenez, N., … Castelló Bueno, M. (2025). Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. Urban Geography, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2440245 [Q1 SJR, Urban Studies]
Bianchi, I. (2024). The democratising capacity of new municipalism: beyond direct democracy in public–common partnerships. Policy & Politics (published online ahead of print 2024). https://doi.org/10.1332/03055736Y2024D000000033 [Q1 SJR, Sociology and political science]
Bianchi I (2023) The commonification of the public under new municipalism: commons-state institutions in Naples and Barcelona. Urban Studies, 60(11), 2116-2132. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221101460 [Q1 SJR, Urban studies] Link to postprint version
Bianchi I (2023) Empowering policies for grassroots welfare initiatives: Blending social innovation and commons theory. European Urban and Regional Studies, 30(2), 107-120 https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764221129532 [Q1 SJR, Urban studies] Link to postprint version
Bianchi I et al. (2022) Urban commons and the local state: commons-led co-production, between enhancement and co-optation. Territory, Politics and Governance, 12(9), 1333–1352 https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2022.2108491 [Q1 SJR, Sociology and political science] Lonk to postprint version
Bianchi I (2022) The autonomy of urban commons’ reproduction in relation to the local state: between material and decision-making autonomy. Partecipazione e Conflitto, 15 (2):370-389. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v15i2p370 [Q2 SJR, Sociology and political science]
Bianchi I (2022) The local state’s repertoires of governance strategies for the urban commons. Nuancing current perspectives. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40(8), 1784-1800. https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544221108333 [Q1 SJR, Public Administration, Q1 Geography planning and development] Link to postprint version
Pera M and Bianchi I (2022). Governmentality, the Local State, and the Commons: An Analysis of Civic Management Facilities in Barcelona. Social Inclusion, 10 (1), pp. 115-125. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i1.4732 [Q2 SJR, Sociology and political science]
Rossini L, Bianchi I (2020) Negotiating (re)appropriation practices amid crisis and austerity. International Planning Studies, 25 (1), pp. 100-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2019.1701424. [Q1 SJR, Geography planning and development]
Blanco I, Salazar Y and Bianchi I (2020) Urban governance and political change under a radical left government. The case of Barcelona. Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(1), pp. 18-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2018.1559648. [Q1 SJR, Urban Studies; Q1 SJR Sociology and political science]
Bianchi I (2018) The Post-political Meaning of the Concept of Commons: the Regulation of the Urban Commons in Bologna. Space and Polity, 22(3), pp. 287-306. https://doi.org/1010.1080/13562576.2018.1505492. [Q1 SJR, Geography planning and development; Q1 SJR Political science and international relations] Link to postprint version
Bianchi I (2018) A Relational Approach for the Study of Urban Commons: The Case of the Escocesa Art Centre in Barcelona. Tracce Urbane. Italian Journal of Urban Studies, 4, pp.171-193. https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562_2.4.14356
Books
Bianchi I (2025) Barcelona: urban commons and local state assemblages. London: Routledge.
Bianchi I and Russell B (in press-2026) Radical Municipalism: the politics of the common and the democratisation of public services. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Book chapters
Bianchi I (2024) The everyday politics of the urban commons: ambivalent political possibilities in the dialectical, evolving and selective urban context. In Hamel and Domaradzka (eds) Handbook of Urban Social Movement, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 284-300
Pera M, Bianchi I and Salazar Y (2023). The Embeddedness of Public-common Institutions: The Citizen Assets Programme in Barcelona. In Bua and Bussu (eds) Reclaiming particpatory governance. Social Movements and the Reinvention of Democratic Innovation. London: Routledge, pp. 209-224.
Bianchi (2022) The tendency towards enclosure: an inherent and market/state-shaped dynamic of the urban commons. Insights from Barcelona. In Lijster T, Volont L, Gielen P (eds), Rise of the Common City: Cultural Commoning in Urban Conditions. Brussels: Academic and Scientific Publishers, pp. 47-61.
Bianchi I, Salazar Y, Pera M (2021). «No olvidemos nunca quiénes somos ni por qué estamos aquí». Sobre Barcelona en Comú, movimientos sociales y cambio radical. In Monge C, Bergua J, Minguijón P, Pac Salas D (eds) (2021). Tras la indignación. El 15M: miradas desde el presente. Barcelona: Gedisa, pp. 149-160.
Perez C, Bianchi I, Busacca M (2021) Conflictividad asociada a la turistificación: Machu Picchu y Venecia. In Romero L, Castro H y Valera A (eds) (2021). Globalización neoliberal, extractivismos y conflictividad ambiental y territorial en américa latina y europa. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, pp pp. 331-380.
Bianchi I (2020) Urban Commons: Between Collaborative Pacts and Neoliberal Governmentality. In Borelli, G. and Busacca M. (eds) (2020). The Dark Side of Social Innovation. Milano: Mimesis International, pp 63-78.
Bianchi I (2018) Dal Pla Buits al Patrimonio Cittadino di Uso e Gestione Comunitaria. In Ostanel, E. (2018) Spazi fuori dal Comune: Rigenerazione urbana e innovazione sociale. Franco Angeli: Milano, pp. 52-57.
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