TY - DATA T1 - Data underlying the publication: Social Roles in Circular Commons: Insights from Seven Urban Case Studies PY - 2025/04/09 AU - Tamara Egger AU - Machiel van Dorst AU - Alexandra den Heijer UR - DO - 10.4121/38db252b-79af-476f-a803-e35330e2d0cd.v1 KW - circular commons KW - urban commons KW - multispecies commons KW - circular society KW - social roles KW - community stewardship KW - self-organization KW - action research KW - case studies KW - circular economy N2 -

This dataset supports the publication in the Special Issue Urban Dialogics of the journal Urban Studies (SAGE). It includes data collected through action research to investigate how social roles and cooperation practices evolve in circular commons across diverse urban settings.


The research focused on seven case studies: BlueCity (Rotterdam), De Ceuvel (Amsterdam), Diseño Informal (Buenos Aires), Granby Four Streets (Liverpool), Haus der Materialisierung (Berlin), Kibera Public Space Project (Nairobi), and R-Urban (Paris). All data have been anonymized.


The dataset includes:

  1. Table Collected Data – Transcribed interviews, recordings, and field diaries gathered during the action research process.
  2. Document Analysis – Coding and analysis of 38 related documents using Atlas.ti.


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