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]

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 [2]

• Urban Commons Handbook. Urban Commons Research Collective. DPR, 2022 [3]

• 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". [4]

• 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