This article has been published in the firts issue of the UOU Scientific Journal. You can find the full text in English here

The notion of commons has been translated, in the last two decades, from the field of natural resources to the urban dimension. As every translation goes, something is lost, and something can be found. The theory of urban commons, far from being complete or exhaustive, has been also linked to the inflated slogan of the right to the city. This article will try to illustrate how and why the concepts of commons, right to the city and urban commons are linked together. This insight will allow us to understand the differences between these concepts and, therefore, will point out the complexities and contradictions. Urban commons will be addressed through the theoretical frame of the concept of commons, studied by Hardin and Ostrom, through the notions of habit and performance as articulated by Hardt and Negri, and through the metaphor of the threshold developed by Stavrides. The conclusion of the article will highlight the relational nature of the urban commons, and the findings will outline their relation with the concepts of process, time and fugitive democracy.