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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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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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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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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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Part research institute, part relational laboratory, part activist artwork, Ubiquitous Commons is hard to categorize.
jean lievens's insight:
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“Citizen networks, wireless or not, could become a transversal infrastructral layer, reaching across society and different domains, becoming a revolutionary enabler of a new urban life in a way that points beyond capitalism as we knew it. … Rather than having corporations and the state who centrally organize production and consumption, in such a commons mode of production peer-to-peer forms of cooperation link infrastructural, political and cultural layers. The decentralized utopia envisioned by the 68 generation can now become a concrete project. With citizen networks and decentralized computing power localized exchange economies can be organized.”
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In the gap between people and increasingly unaccountable institutions beholden to financial interests, citizens are rising up to reclaim the commons.
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One of the key ideas and proposals of the P2P Foundation, the Assembly of the Commons, is getting traction. After the launch in Ghent, and plans in Lille, northern France; Toulouse is also planning a event on October 10, in the context of the Temps des Communs urban campaign in French and French-speaking cities. Watch …
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Conference report via the ‘Revue Urbanisme': “What is at stake when goods don’t belong to anyone but still have a great role for communities ?
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The issue, as we’ve known for more than a decade, is that every recentralization, even if done on a citizen platform, has a high social cost: the devaluation of the conversation and the emergence of control. All it takes is experiencing distributed architectures to enter a completely different world. That’s why, if we want create a strategy of civic reappropriation of the “sharing economy,” we have to look to what is spearheading distributed architectures today: GNU social, the Free Software Foundation project that is having the most social impact and growing fastest in users and instances.
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The author, Christian Iaione, and the staff at LabGov where instrumental in Co-City projects like Co-Mantua and the Bologna Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Commons, which has been adopted by over 40 other cities in Italy.
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Ouishare Fest 2014 presentation via Tomas Diez on Evolving From Fab Labs To Fab Cities
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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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The widespread and improper use of “commons” and “sharing” by politicians and companies is leading us towards widespread disillusionment.
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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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Rob Hopkins introduces the Transition Network's new book compilation: '21 Stories of Transition'
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This is a truly heartening interview to see the depth of activity of urban commoners. The interview with Marion Rousseaux was conducted by Michel Bauwens, with the assistance of Mélanie Gabard and Simon Sarazin who are active in the same projects. * Michel Bauwens: First of all, tell us a bit about your personal backgrounds …
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Neal Gorenflo describes the one year anniversary of The Bologna Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons, a unique city policy.
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Stavrides argues that for commoning to become more mainstream would require new kinds of institutions, specifically political ones. Thus far, political inspiration has come from outside Europe: from the water commons system in Cochabamba, Bolivia, or the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico, or most recently the Syrian Kurds in Kobane. But that may be changing. With …
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How to promote social cohesion and belonging in our neighbourhoods through Internet and why centralized corporate architectures.
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Excerpted from Heather Menzies: “I sense a reclaiming of that vision at work in many grassroots initiatives to reclaim the city as a public living space, not just retail, real estate and parking space. In Ottawa, some of this has been channeled through the conventional institution of the community association. In the neighbourhood where the …
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This text is the result of my intervention in the ‘Hacking the City’ workshop organised by radarq that took place in Seville, Spain, on September 2012. My goal was to think about the concept of Tactical Urbanism and its ability to empower citizens, considering the possibilities offered to us by the digital sphere and new technologies.
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