The Co-Cities Open Book is the result of years of research and experimentations on the field to investigate new forms of collaborative city-making that are pushing urban areas towards new frontiers of participatory urban governance, inclusive economic growth and social innovation.
This open book has roots in our conceptualization of the ‘City as a Commons,’ the emerging academic field of urban commons studies, and the work developed in 5 years of remarkable urban experimentations in Italy and around the world. Structured around three main pillars, the Co-Cities open book will first provide scholars, practitioners and policy-makers with an overview of the theory and methodology of the Co-City with the “Co-Cities Protocol”.
The open book also presents the “Co-Cities report”, the results of an extensive research project in which we extracted from, and measured the existence of, Co-City design principles in a database of 400+ case studies in 130+ cities around the world. Ultimately, thanks to the Co-cities report we were able to create the first index able to measure how cities are implementing the right to the city through co-governance. Thus, the Co-Cities index serves as a fundamental tool for the international community in order to measure the implementation of some of the objectives that have been set by the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
The last section of the book presents a collection, or annex, of articles of some of the most important researchers and practitioners studying the urban commons. These essays were conceived and offered as part of “The City as a Commons” conference, the first IASC (International Association for the Study of the Commons) conference on urban commons, co-chaired by Christian Iaione and Sheila Foster that took place in Bologna on November 6 and 7, 2015.
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This week LabGov will be releasing the first section of the Co-Cities Open Book, a publication that is the result of years of research and experimentations on the field to investigate new forms of collaborative city-making that is pushing urban areas towards new frontiers of participatory urban governance, inclusive economic growth and social innovation. .
This open book has roots in our conceptualization of the ‘City as a Commons,’ the emerging academic field of urban commons studies, and the work developed in 5 years of remarkable urban experimentations in Italy and around the world [1]. Structured around three main pillars, the Co-Cities open book will first provide scholars, practitioners and policy-makers with an overview of the theory and methodology of the Co-City with the “Co-Cities Protocol”.
The open book also presents the “Co-Cities report”, the results of an extensive research project in which we extracted from, and measured the existence of, Co-City design principles in a database of 400+ case studies in 130+ cities around the world. Ultimately, thanks to the Co-cities report we were able to create the first index able to measure how cities are implementing the right to the city through co-governance. Thus, the Co-Cities index serves as a fundamental tool for the international community in order to measure the implementation of some of the objectives that have been set by the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
The last section of the book presents a collection, or annex, of articles of some of the most important researchers and practitioners studying the urban commons. These essays were conceived and offered as part of “The City as a Commons” conference, the first IASC (International Association for the Study of the Commons) conference on urban commons, co-chaired by Christian Iaione and Sheila Foster that took place in Bologna on November 6 and 7, 2015.
Don’t miss the publications of the Co-Cities Open Book sections on our website and social media pages in the coming weeks. A complete version of the open book, downloadable from our website, will be available at the beginning of January on our website.
[1] The theoretical background and literature of this project, and the conceptual pillars of the Co-City are based on the analytical framework developed in the following publications: Sheila Foster, The City as an Ecological Space: Social Capital and Urban Land Use, 82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 527 (2006-2007); Sheila Foster, Collective action and the Urban Commons, 58 Notre Dame L. Rev 57; Christian Iaione, Governing the Urban Commons, 1 It. J. pub. l. 170 (2015); Christian Iaione, The CO-city, 75 The American Journal of Economics and sociology, 2 (2016); Sheila Foster & Christian Iaione, The City as a Commons, 34 yale l. & pol’y rev 81 (2016); Christian Iaione, The Law and Policy of Pooling in the city, Fordham Urban Law Journal 34:2 (2016) and Sheila Foster & Christian Iaione, Ostrom in the City: design principles for the urban commons, The Nature of cities, https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2017/08/20/ostrom-city-design-principles-urban-commons/. (20 August 2017).
In collaboration with The Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, the School of Community and Public Affairs, and the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, the Center for research on social innovations – CRISES is hosting Sheila Foster (Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University and Co-Director of LabGov) and Christian Iaione (Professor of Land Use, Regulatory Innovation, Urban Law and Policy at LUISS Guido Carli University School of Law and Co-Director LabGov) for the lecture “Ostrom in the City: from the urban commons to the Co-City”.
“Ostrom in the City: from the urban commons to the Co-City” signifies a shift in the study of urban commons towards an innovative governance model that has the potential to address the main challenges our cities are facing today. Sheila Foster and Christian Iaione have developed this framework through years of academic research and experimentations in cities. They take reference from Elinor Ostrom’s groundbreaking research about collaborative management of common pool resources, or commons, for economic and environmental sustainability adapting the Ostrom design principle to the urban context with the aim of rethinking the governance of cities and the management of their resources. Urban commons are different from natural resources and more traditional commons in important ways, so the adaptation of Ostrom’s theories to the urban context implied an extensive research.
The study at the basis of their Co-City model surveyed 100+ cities around the world to extract from these examples a set of design principles that resulted distinctively different from those offered by Elinor Ostrom but kept the potentiality of paving the way towards a transition to more fair, inclusive, sustainable, resilient futures given existing patterns of urbanization and the contested nature of urban resources.
To learn more about the Co-City approach please visit: http://commoning.city/co-city-approach/
The event will take place on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 5 pm – 7 pm, at Concordia University, Atrium – Samuel Bronfman Building, 1590 Dr. Penfield (corner Cote-des-neiges).
An international symposium dedicated to City Agencies and Urban Think Tanks, in which scholars, policy-makers, practitioners, city- makers, and students as much as representatives from NGOs, cultural, administrative, political and funding institutions will be involved in a conversation concerning how is it possible for EU citizens tocontribute to the definition of the agenda for the cities they livein, and to influence the shaping of EU policies for cities.
The conference will take place in Turin from the 4th to the 6th of November and is organized by the Urban Center of the City of Torino as part of EUCANET, the European Agencies Network for citizenship, inclusion, involvement and empowerment of communities through the urban transformation process. EUCANET involves five partners from four countries: Urban Center Metropolitano Torino and Urban Center Bologna from Italy, City of Marseille from France, city of Skopje from Macedonia and Cluj Metropolitan Area Intercommunity Development Association from Romania.
The symposium will host a key-note speech, two main sessions and a number of practice-oriented workshops. During the conference people and organizations gathered from all Europe will be involved in the delivery of a Policy brief summarizing the potentialities and possible new roles to be played by City Agencies and Urban Thinks Tanks, from proactively feeding local urban debate, to connecting local issues to the EU policy-making level, to strengthening our common European urban culture.
Elena De Nictolis, Head Researcher at LabGov, will give a key-note speech at the round table on “City agencies as enabling tools” together with Corrado Topi from the Stockholm Environment Institute, moderated by Marco Demarie, Compagnia di San Paolo and Levente Polyàk, Eutropian.
The other round table participants will be:Toni Masevski, City of Skopje; Federica Fulghesu, NESTA Italia;Øystein Leonardsen, City of Copenhagen; Andres Blanco, Inter- American Development Bank; Carla Tedesco, Comune di Bari.
For more information: https://eucanet.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/eucanet-final-conference/?fbclid=IwAR1ea5mSKR6yrJT9TxL5bqyea7_PyKrNaFV3ps69C3LLKY1OJSdLtlDvuJ8
