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Identifying core elements of these diverse efforts, Sheila R.Foster and Chrstian Iaione develop a framework for understanding how certain initiatives position local communities as key actors in the production, delivery, and management of urban assets or local resources. Within this framework, they explain the forms such initiatives increasingly take, like community land trusts, new kinds of co-housing, neighborhood cooperatives, community-shared broadband and energy networks, and new local offices focused on citizen science and civic imagination.
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One-on-one conversation with Professor Sheila Foster about the Co-Cities book
Welcome to our CO-Cities book blog, readers. This post features a one-on-one conversation with Professor Sheila Foster, co-author of the Co-Cities book and co-director of LabGov, a scientific and applied research laboratory in multiple cities. Let’s get...
Foster & Iaione Probe Commoning in the City
Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione have been recently guests of David Bollier on his podcast “Frontiers of Commoning” (episode 37). The interview was an opportunity to present their last publication, “Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions Toward Just and...
Professor Christian Iaione’s interview for Euractiv
“Co-management city assets to improve the quality of democracy” – included within the report “A look at democratic experiments across Europe.” Luiss professor Iaione calls “administrative collaborative democracy” the idea to establish civic collaborations with local...
Urban sustainable development and innovation partnerships
This article discusses the concept of Urban Sustainable Development and Innovation Partnerships (USDIPs) as a tool for designing and managing policy experiments in cities to accelerate technological and ecological transitions while ensuring accountability and equality...
SlogLaw: Co-Cities: A Journey Through Urban Time and Space
Many scholars, experts, authors and policymakers have expressed their opinions about Cities and Urbanism today on Sloglaw. Amnon Lehavi, Professor of Law at the Harry Ledzyner Law School, Reichman University also shares his thought-provoking opinions on Sloglaw about...
Re-thinking the City
What key principles underpin a Co-city model of urban governance, and how can they be applied to promote more collaborative and inclusive approaches to urban planning and development? Following our previous discussion which introduced the book, this session brings us...
The Co-cities book. So the story begins
How can the recognition of the fundamental right to collective action of city inhabitants and local communities foster the sustainable development of cities and urban innovation thereby promoting social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and prosperity? ...
Verso Savio 2030: la co-governance per lo sviluppo sostenibile della Valle del Savio
L’Unione dei Comuni della Valle Savio ha avviato a luglio 2019 Verso Savio 2030, percorso strategico volto a sviluppare un kit di politiche e di strumenti legali che favoriscano la collaborazione tra pubblico, privato e comunità nella realizzazione di progettualità...
Responsible Villages: the governance of the territory and the landscape as a commons
A Master Plan for the Central Districts of Los Santos The Universidad Latina's School of Architecture, the School of Public Relations, and the School of Biology have launched a pilot project in May 2019 to investigate "Villages and the Territory as a Commons". This...