Category for city-related pages, urbanism, architectural trends.

Worthy of Support

The P2P Foundation supports efforts towards Peer-to-Peer Urbanism and Commons-based Urbanism, (i.e. Komunal or common land approaches).

We also particularly appreciate the P2P-Urbanism approach taken by Nikos Salingaros, Gruppo Salingaros and other bio-urbanist friends.

Policies for a Shareable City: Shareable Magazine's 20-part series on policies that foster resource sharing, co-production, and mutual aid in cities [1]

Sharing Cities and Regions

1. Homegrown Minneapolis Commons-Based Food Policy Blueprint ; Neighborhood Revitalization Program - Minneapolis
2. Naples' Italy: Assessor of the Commons
3. Open Commons Region Linz
4. San Francisco Sharing Economy Working Group

Key Resources

• World Map of City Civic Organisations

Key Articles

1. Peer-to-Peer Themes and Urban Priorities for the Self-organizing Society. By Nikos A. Salingaros. University of Texas at San Antonio. A contribution from April 26, 2010.
2. A Brief History of P2P-Urbanism. Great intro by Nikos A. Salingaros & Federico Mena-Quintero
3. Pulska Grupa: P2P Urbanism: From Exclusion to Autonomy‎
4. Design for a Post-Neoliberal City. Jesko Fezer. e-flux journal 17, 06/2016. [2] "From being strategic sites for the implementation of neoliberal policy, cities may possibly become a new political arena for experiments in democracy—and thus require a new design.
5. Adaptive Architecture, Collaborative Design, and the Evolution of Community: Text by Eric Hunting, on the future of a p2p-based 'Adaptive Architecture'.
6. David Barrie: Towards Open Source Place-Making
7. Codes and the Architecture of Life. By Michael Mehaffy
8. Jason F. Mclennan. The Urban Agriculture Revolution. Bringing Food into Living Cities. http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/urban-agriculture-revolution.pdf]: An important and sensible overview of why this is happening.
9. The Radical Technology of Christopher Alexander. By Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros. Introduction to the Pattern Language work inspiring the P2P urbanistic community.

• More on the bio-urbanistic work of Nikos A. Salingaros (and Michael Mehaffy), in an ongoing series in Metropolis magazine:

1. Øyvind Holmstad's introduction
2. Series accessible via http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/author/nikos
3. The Radical Technology of Christopher Alexander
4. The Sustainable Technology of Christopher Alexander
5. The Pattern Technology of Christopher Alexander
6. The Living Technology of Christopher Alexander
7. The “Wholeness-Generating” Technology of Christopher Alexander

• How-To:

1. How to Start a Housing Co-op (U.S.)

Key Blogs and Websites

• The P2P Urbanism pages of the International Society of BioUrbanism, at http://www.biourbanism.org/p2p-urbanism/

• Peer to Peer Urbanism blog at http://p2purbanism.blogspot.com/

Key Books

• Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future. Matt Hern. AK Press, 2009. [3]: If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And cities are the best chance we have left for a sustainable future ... but only if they remain vibrant, dynamic spaces that are unfolded by millions of people working together—and not by master plans and planners. What will it take to make our cities truly sustainable?

Key Tags

1. http://del.icio/mbauwens/P2P-Urbanism
2. http://del.icio/mbauwens/P2P-Architecture
3. http://del.icio/mbauwens/P2P-Neighborhoods
4. http://del.icio/mbauwens/P2P-Cities

Key Projects

• Policies for a Shareable City: the series initiated by Neal Gorenflo of Shareable magazine will cover 20 policy areas to inspire discussion among citizens and city leaders.
• City-Based Food Commons (the Homegrown Minneapolis Commons-Based Food Policy Blueprint)

Key Videos

• Interview with Stefano Serafini on P2P Urbanism‎