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

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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

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

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

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

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

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