Policy Proposals for City as Commons

* Book: The City as Commons: A Policy Reader. Ed. by José Maria Ramos. Commons Transition Coalition, Melbourne, Australia (2016).

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Table of Contents

• The City as Commons: a Policy Reader ............................................................. 1

Space

• Design and the City Commons......................................................................... 14
• Active Transit & City Commons: Putting People Back into the City & the City Back into Place ................................ 18
• Repurposing Public Spaces in a City as a Commons: the Library................. 23
• Heritage and City Commons............................................................................. 26

Value Exchange

• Sharing Cities: An Asset-based Approach to the Urban Commons............. 33
• Community Currencies and City Commons.................................................... 37
• Time Banks and City Commoning..................................................................... 41
• Construction Waste Transformation and City Commons............................... 44

Production

• Platform Cooperatives for Democratic Cities ................................................. 48
• Coworking: Challenges and Opportunities for a Prosperous and Fair New

Economy

• Orchards and the City as a Commons ............................................................ 57
• Cosmo-localism and Urban Commoning ........................................................ 61
• City Commons and Energy Demand............................................................... 66
• It’s Time to Create Chambers of Commons.................................................... 71

Governance

• Sharing Cities: Governing the City as Commons ............................................ 77
• Devolved Commons Governance for Cities................................................... 80
• Anticipatory Governance and the City as a Commons................................ 86
• A Civic Union ....................................................................................................... 90

Land

• Tax Reform for a Commons-based City ........................................................... 97
• The City as Commons: a Policy Reader iii
• Tax Delinquent Private Property and City Commons................................... 102
• Community Land Trusts..................................................................................... 106
• The City as a Regional Commons................................................................... 109

Knowledge

• Open Data and City Commons...................................................................... 114
• Human Service Directory Data as a Commons ............................................ 116
• The Unseen City: Commons Oriented Cities and the Commons Beyond.. 120

==Culture==.

• Culture as Commons........................................................................................ 125
• Ubuntu as a Primer for City Commons ........................................................... 128
• Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and the City as Commons ................................. 131

Accounts

• Bologna Celebrates One Year of a Bold Experiment in Urban Commoning .......................................................... 138
• Milano, New Practices to Booster Social Innovation .................................... 142
• The Emergence of Assemblies of the Commons .......................................... 144
• History and Evolution of the Chamber of Commons Idea........................... 150
• Big Blue Sky: Re-igniting the Art of Citizenship ............................................... 160
• Zaragoza Activa, an Ecosystem of Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation and Creativity, in an Old Sugar Factory ....... 163