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...
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Responsible Villages: the governance of the territory and the landscape as a commons
The School of Architecture of the Universidad Latina, together with the School of Public Relations and the School of Biology, are proposing a pilot project that began on May 2019, which aims to work on “Villages and the Territory as a Commons”. For the first time,...
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Co-Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, the capital of Louisiana with approximately 800,000 residents, is a city that is spatially stratified by race and income. Some describe it as a tale of “two cities” with higher quality housing, amenities and transportation in white areas and a lack of...
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Social Housing as a commons for resilient cities – San José
A Research and Development Program at The Universidad Latina of Costa Rica This project is part of the Research and Development program, which seeks to develop initiatives with communities and local governments, which allow executing real projects that combine...
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Ostrom in the City: Design Principles for the Urban Commons – Sheila Foster, Washington, DC. Christian Iaione, Rome. The Nature of Cities, 20 August 2017
“Where we are able to identify a network of urban commons, or some degree of polycentricism in the governance of urban resources, we begin to see the transformation of the city into a commons—a collaborative space—supported and enabled by the state.” The article...
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The Right to the Co-City. An article in the Italian Journal of Public Law, 1:9 (2017) providing a reflection on the understanding of the concept of Co-city from a legal perspective.
The article, The Right To the Co-city, authored by Christian Iaione is published on the Italian Journal of Public Law, Volume 9 Issue 1 2017. The study is an effort to contribute to the current urban studies debate on the way to conceptualize the city by advancing a...
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The Possibility of a CO-City – Interview with Christian Iaione by Anne de Zeeuw and Michiel Hulshof for New Europe, Cities in Transition. 17 November 2016
“Citizens should not just be involved, but they should be driving the process, being the managers.” What does the rise of bottom-up initiatives mean for our current welfare state? Does it provide a way out of the growing dichotomy between active citizens and...
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The City as a Commons – Christian Iaione interview by Kati Van de Velde for The Green European Journal. November 9, 2016
“Society runs, the economy follows. Let’s (re)design institutions and law together.” This is the credo of LabGov – the Laboratory for the governance of the commons in Italy, that was behind the pioneering “Bologna Regulation” – a guidebook on public-civic...
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The Co-City: From the Tragedy to the Comedy of the Urban Commons – Sheila Foster, Washington, DC. The Nature of Cities, 2 November 2016
“When widely and intensely shared urban resources increase solidarity and generative potential, they can invert the tragedy of the commons paradigm.” The article “The Co-City: From the Tragedy to the Comedy of the Urban Commons” by Sheila Foster published in The...
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Interview with Christian Iaione: Developing the Co-City Protocol by Urban Next. February 2016
In this interview, conducted in Trento in February 2016 by Urban Next, Professor Christian Iaione speaks about the importance of developing a scientific and methodological protocol allowing for the creation of Co-Cities, based on the idea of the city as a commons. The...
read moreThe anthology, which gathers the most relevant research papers dedicated to urban commons theories, is intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to the Co-City approach.
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Micheal Bauwens – Recent Developments in Urban Commons Transition
David Bollier – Vernacular Law and Complexity Science: Two Guides for Creating Urban Commons
Paola Cannavò and Massimo Zupi – A pact for the territory: towards a collaborative governance of transformation processes
Tine De Moor – Urban Commons: a Reader
Sheila Foster – Law and the Urban Commons
Silke Helfrich – Imagining the (R)Urban Commons in 2040
Christian Iaione – The Platform-State. Government as an enabler Civic Imagination and Collaboration. Politics and Institutions in the CO-century
Ezio Manzini – A design strategy for social communing. Social commons, collaborative organizations, and relational goods: a virtuous circle