A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services.

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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.

Co-cities map overview

LabGov experimentation grounds

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Case Studies Collected

Case Studies analyzed

Latest Publications

Foster & Iaione Probe Commoning in the City

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

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

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

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   

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

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?  ...