Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Precarity -- Chapter 3: Propinquity -- Chapter 4: Conflict -- Chapter 5: Serendipity -- Chapter 6: Fear -- Chapter 7: The Urban Commons.Increasingly, we live in an environment of our own making: a ‘world as design’ over the natural world. For more than half of the global population, this environment is also thoroughly urban. But what does a global urban…