Its main goal is to promote equitable and inclusive growth for the community. The community, experts, non-profits, and local authorities have collaborated to draft its Equitable Development Plan. As 11th Street Bridge Park director, Scott Kratz, said during its panel at the Aspen Institute: “we have to ensure that the thousands of people who help shaping the park would be the ones benefit from it” (Aspen Institute 2018).For example, 35% of projects subcontractors are DC based minority owned firms.

Page about equity : https://bbardc.org/communityinvestments/

Contact form : https://bbardc.org/contact-us/

Since 2007, 8 80 Cities :

• “Successfully re-branded ourselves “8 80 Cities” to reflect our people-centered approach
• Worked with over 350 communities across 6 continents
• Become experts in unconventional citizen engagement
• Helped lead an open streets movement around the world
• Delivered over 100 community-led engagement projects to improve parks, streets and public spaces for all
• Partnered with global leaders in public health, transportation, parks and recreation, urban design, and more.”

https://www.880cities.org/about-8-80-cities/

Interview.

Contact : info@880cities.org

The self-managed and open cooperatives that make up Cooperation Jackson aim at building co-governance and are oriented towards the construction of an economic system relying on increased participation and therefore enabling collective and socially oriented decisions. The cooperatives promote economic sustainability through a redistribution system in which the surplus is transferred to new jobs development, to community development, to social security system based on reciprocal solidarity and responsibility and to cooperation with other institutions enhancing social transformation. In that sense, the cooperatives are working towards retrieving control on labor but also getting back the control on the land.

In fact, to tackle the threat of gentrification resulting from the transformation of the place into a medical corridor, the Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust aims at providing stable and affordable housing. The project is to set up housing cooperatives to be collectively managed.

The cooperatives are also constructing urban agricultural sustainability solutions through the Freedom Farms Cooperatives. In the long term, the Sustainable Community Initiatives are aimed at forming an eco-village, namely a work-live community where solar energy is used and where people are granted urban farming plots, and where compost and recycling are adopted. 

 Eventually, the cooperatives are willing to build up a Center for Community Production comprising a Fab Lab, a coding and digital programming innovation hub as well as a maker space. This initiative, called the Community Production Initiative, will provide for industrial manufacturing based on 3rd and 4th generation industrial technology including 3D printing or quantum computing. The latter will be collectively owned and democratically used by defined communities.

In the first phases, “the Co-City team has been able to identify some strategic projects in response to the expressed desires of the community. Some of these projects, such as the Community Land Bank and Community EcoParks, are on the horizon for 2020 whereas others have a longer runway.” (http://commoning.city/co-cities-experimentations/co-baton-rouge/)

https://buildbatonrouge.org

Co-City project and studies. Contact the Labgov based in Georgetown : labgov@georgetown.edu

“Heel de Stad, Heel de Aarde, also called The Whole Commons Catalog, is the catalog of Amsterdam’s commons packed with ideas and solutions for our time. The City of Amsterdam, one of the Civic eState’s City partners, is teeming with initiatives in which citizens are active in collective management to answer to daily needs such as housing, food and energy. As stated in the introduction by the editor Natascha Hagenbeek, “the commons is on the agenda”.” (https://urbact.eu/there-no-commons-without-commoning-amsterdams-whole-commons-catalog)

Contact : tnp2@urbact.eu