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The City as Commons: a Policy Reader, brings together 34 contributions and 31 authors exploring policies and strategies for creating cities as commons. 
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Sharing is not an opposite of ownership nor a panacea. But we can make use of existing resources rather than create everything we need.
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION FEATURED BOOK P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P COLLABORATION P2P LEGAL DEV. P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARING
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Extracted from an article by Nikos A. Salingaros. PAVEMENTS AND HIERARCHY Architecture has in the past felt a need for pavements that are either patterned, or that embody figurative art. Our perception of space is founded on a connection with the ground via design. In creating an artificial built environment to house themselves and their... Continue reading →
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COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE GUEST POST P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P INFRASTRUCTURES P2P SCIENCE
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Alejandro Aravena, the 2016 Pritzker Prize winner, is releasing his housing designs as an open-source resource to help tackle the affordable housing crisis
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In the age of ubiquitous Internet connections and data, the vitality of cities is increasingly based on their ability to use networks intelligently.
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In the age of ubiquitous Internet connections and data, the vitality of cities is increasingly based on their ability to use networks intelligently.
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In Dublin there are many needs which are not met due to high rent, the commodification of social/cultural life, and the regulation of public space.
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The widespread and improper use of “commons” and “sharing” by politicians and companies is leading us towards widespread disillusionment.
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Excerpted from Jathan Sadowski and Frank Pasquale: At one end of the spectrum of control are the technologies that enact their power in subtle ways. They are increasingly ubiquitous and become subsumed into the background of everyday life due to their ‘invisibility’ (Star, 1999). That is, they can be functionally invisible because people no longer …
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“There is a certain allure to the idea that cities allow a person to both feel at home and like a stranger in the same place. That one can know the streets and shops, avenues and alleys, while also going days without being recognized. But as elites fill cities with “smart” technologies — turning them into platforms for the “Internet of Things” (IoT): sensors and computation embedded within physical objects that then connect, communicate, and/or transmit information with or between each other through the Internet — there is little escape from a seamless web of surveillance and power. This paper will outline a social theory of the “smart city” by developing our Deleuzian concept of the “spectrum of control.” We present two illustrative examples: biometric surveillance as a form of monitoring, and automated policing as a particularly brutal and exacting form of manipulation. We conclude by offering normative guidelines for governance of the pervasive surveillance and control mechanisms that constitute an emerging critical infrastructure of the “smart city.”
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The paper will offer a more progressive vision to the smart city vision to legitimate city as commons ideas within the domain of civic public policy
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A step through the city of the Commons of 2040, an environment that can provide the conditions and infrastructures for commoning in urban areas.
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Excerpted from Sheila Foster: “The city is also a collective or common good, in that urban residents share a number of its resources — from the parks and opens spaces to streets and buildings, and even a city’s culture. Much like the natural environment, the urban environment too is subject to the disproportionate consumption by …
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The real strength of today’s protest movements is not conflict, but a reclaimed solidarity and newly rebuilt sense of community.
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Next year will be the 40 years anniversary of Christopher Alexander‘s seminal work “A Pattern Language”. 20 years ago Nikos A.
jean lievens's insight:
CONFERENCES GIFT ECONOMIES OPEN CALLS P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P DEVELOPMENT P2P ECOLOGY P2P EDUCATION P2P GOVERNANCE P2P LOCALIZATION P2P RESEARCH P2P TECHNOLOGY
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A series of 3 excerpts on commonifying the fictitious commodities identified by Karl Polany, i.e. land, money and labor, from an essay by Gary Flomenhoft.
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COMMONS TRANSITION FOOD AND AGRICULTURE P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS
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"Yardfarming: the process of turning unsustainable, resource-intensive lawns and otherwise underutilized green spaces into small food production sites"
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Individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but in the long run it attacks and destroys all others to be absorbed in selfishness
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The urban commons movement of today stands on the shoulders of people’s continuing efforts to improve urban life
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Prominent Swedes like Assar Lindbeck, Christopher O´Regan, Ehrling Norrby, Caroline Silfverstolple say `no´ to the controversial Nobel Center on Blasieholmen and to the demolition of the beautiful Tullhuset from 1876 classified as a highly culturally valuable building. Radio Sweden on the project (in English): http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=6322938
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A new anthology of essays, Build the City: Perspectives on Commons and culture,powerfully confirms that the “city as a commons” meme is surging.
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Excerpted from Jathan Sadowski and Frank Pasquale: “What will a social theory of the smart city demand? As opposed to the ideology of advocates, social theory is a “systematic, historically informed and empirically oriented theory seeking to explain the nature of ‘the social,’” where the social “can be taken to mean the general range of …
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P2P Plazas: one year of research looking for interesting, challenging and inspiring autonomous experiences in Southern Europe
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The city as a commons is a claim on the city by the people that calls for us to rethink how cities are governed and resources allocated and by whom.
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Why is this distinction important ? Sheila Foster explains: “The idea that like natural resources/commons the city can not just be over-consumed but also unjustly consumed. The commons is a way to call attention to this and to describe not just a practice of commoning (cooperatives, co-managed space and collaborative produced goods, etc) but also …
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