New section focuses on urban commons developments, including policy and political aspects.

Introduction

Five Basic Design Principles for the Urban Commons

Christian Iaione and Sheila Foster:

"We have distilled five key design principles for the urban commons:

• Principle 1: Collective governance refers to the presence of a multi-stakeholder governance scheme whereby the community emerges as an actor and partners up with at least three different urban actors

• Principle 2: Enabling State expresses the role of the State in facilitating the creation of urban commons and supporting collective action arrangements for the management and sustainability of the urban commons.

• Principle 3: Social and Economic Pooling refers to the presence of different forms of resource pooling and cooperation between five possible actors in the urban environment

• Principle 4: Experimentalism is the presence of an adaptive and iterative approach to designing the legal processes and institutions that govern urban commons.

• Principle 5: Tech Justice highlights access to technology, the presence of digital infrastructure, and open data protocols as an enabling driver of collaboration and the creation of urban commons."

(https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2017/08/20/ostrom-city-design-principles-urban-commons/)

Material from the P2P Foundation

• Report: Commons Economies in Action: Mutualizing Urban Provisioning Systems, By Michel Bauwens and Rok Kranjc

URL = https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Mutualizing_Urban_Provisioning_Systems

In: P2P: TOWARDS A COMMONS ECONOMICS By Michel Bauwens, Jose Ramos and Rok Kranjc, P2P Foundation, 2020, Part 3. Reformatted for the wiki with minor corrections by Simon Grant, January 2021.

Key Resources

• * Report: Reviving the commons? A scoping Review of Urban and Digital Commoning. By James Henderson and Oliver Escobar. Edingburgh Futures Institute. Data Civics Observatory, 2024 [1]

• Article / Chapter: Commons Economies in Action. Mutualizing Urban Provisioning Systems. Michel Bauwens, Rok Kranjc, and Jose Ramos

[2]. From the book, Sacred Civics

"This chapter serves as an accessible introduction to some key concepts that are used to describe contemporary urban commons and commoning and as an overview of situated experiments in public-commons cooperation and governance, that have adapted these through a variety of protocols, institutional designs, and social, technical, and ecological innovations. Drawing on the experiences of the cities of Ghent, Barcelona, and others, as well as recent developments in peer-to-peer production and value accounting, it makes a case for urban contributive democracy, and finally, cosmolocal production, a planetary mutualization strategy."

Key Articles

• Two articles by Jonathan Metzger, on including the non-human in our vision of the urban commons: 1) Rethinking the Urban Commons Beyond the Human vs Non-Human Divide‎ ; 2) Enacting the Relational Complexities of More-Than-Human Urban Commoners‎‎

• The commonsbrochure of the city of Amsterdam: http://heeldeaarde.net/magazine/

Key Books

• Common Space. The City as Commons. STAVROS STAVRIDES. University of Chicagro / Zed Books, 2016 [3]

• Urban Commons Handbook. Urban Commons Research Collective. DPR, 2022 [4]

• Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse. The Urban Commons Cookbook: " A handbook for those interested in starting and growing community-led projects which highlights eight projects from Europe, South America, and the United Kingdom". [5]

• Book: Urban Commons: Moving Beyond State and Market. Ed. by Mary Dellenbaugh, Markus Kip et al. Bauwelt Fundamente, 2015; see: Moving the Urban Commons Beyond State and Market

Key People

Commons-friendly mayors:

1. Renato Accorinti, mayor of the Sicilian city of Messina, Italy
2. Ada Colau, the mayor of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
3. Luigi de Magistris‎: the mayor of Naples, Italy
4. Eric Piolle‎‎: the mayor of Grenoble, France
5. Jorge Sharp:‎ the Mayor of Valparaíso (Chile)

Researchers:

• Nele Aernout (VUB)Differentiated Forms of Commoning in a Rental Cooperative, http://urbanstudies.brussels/people/nele-aernouts

• Line Algoed (VUB): Re-Commoning Land in Informal Settlements as Strategies Against Dispossessions, http://www.cosmopolis.be/people/line-algoed

• Alessandra Manganelli (VUB): Food Commoning in Practice. Investigating the Hybrid Governance of Local Food Networks in Brussels, http://www.cosmopolis.be/people/alessandra-manganelli

Key Videos

• Christian Iaone on the Urban Commons Charters in Italy