The City as a Commons Reloaded: from the Urban Commons to Co-Cities Empirical Evidence on the Bologna Regulation

Nictolis, Elena De; Iaione, Christian

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3865774

“…Bologna is further characterized by a solid organization of the economic and social life based on sharing and cooperation: both the vibrant economy of the city and the grassroots political life are grounded on structured organizational forms which have, in time, consolidated the grassroots environment and the local economy; this occurred respectively through cooperatives, co-owned social enterprises (Selloni & Corubolo ,2017), and centri sociali, dissident political collectives operating in spaces often illegally appropriated (Mudu, 2004). From an institutional viewpoint, the city has been responsive towards this collaborative ecosystem by deploying political actions such as Neighborhood labs (Dalfovo, 2020) and the Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons (De Nictolis & Iaione, 2021). At the transnational level Bologna, with the dense knowledge economy generated by the University and its paramount number of temporary inhabitants, is crossed by a dense flow of human and social capital where the local and the global dimension intertwine.…”

Section: The Context Of Bologna and Its Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Systemic) Design for Sustainable Territorial Transition: A Literature Review of State of the Art

Aulisio,

Barbero,

Pereno

2024

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Sustainable territorial development is one of the crucial elements of most governmental strategies and action plans at the international level, which have to adapt to the local context in which they are implemented. In its different scales of application, the discipline of Design is increasingly called upon, permeating skills and tools within policy and governmental contexts that contribute to the definition of strategies to address complex problems. This paper presents a systematic literature review to map the specific declinations of the design field, with a closer look at the disciplinary areas close to Systemic Design methodologies, which are most involved in this field of research. The emerging tools and methods aim to support decision-makers or stakeholders in a necessary social, economic, and environmental transition process.

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“…Bologna is further characterized by a solid organization of the economic and social life based on sharing and cooperation: both the vibrant economy of the city and the grassroots political life are grounded on structured organizational forms which have, in time, consolidated the grassroots environment and the local economy; this occurred respectively through cooperatives, co-owned social enterprises (Selloni & Corubolo ,2017), and centri sociali, dissident political collectives operating in spaces often illegally appropriated (Mudu, 2004). From an institutional viewpoint, the city has been responsive towards this collaborative ecosystem by deploying political actions such as Neighborhood labs (Dalfovo, 2020) and the Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons (De Nictolis & Iaione, 2021). At the transnational level Bologna, with the dense knowledge economy generated by the University and its paramount number of temporary inhabitants, is crossed by a dense flow of human and social capital where the local and the global dimension intertwine.…”

Section: The Context Of Bologna and Its Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Collaboration: A Network Analysis of Local Stances and Global Frameworks in the Collective Design of the City

Sabatini,

Massari,

Boulager

2024

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The research observes practices of collective city-making beyond the participatory framework of institutional urban governance. In particular, it looks at how grassroots organizations in Bologna are able to produce a dual movement between the local and the global, mutually informing global movements and local practices oriented toward the sustainable growth of cities. The first section introduces the theoretical framework, based on participatory governance, urban commons and grassroots networks; it presents the methodology in the second section, introducing the criteria for the dataset and the network analysis consisting of local and global nodes within the city of Bologna; it then presents the results of the analysis, discusses them and draws the conclusions in the final section.

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“…Contrary to supposed tragedies (Hardin, 2009), Ostrom's (Ostrom, 1990(Ostrom, , 2010Brinkley, 2019) fieldwork-based research on common-pool resources (CPR) -that is resources such as fisheries or forests characterized by non-excludability and rivalry -shows that local communities can enact effective selfmanagement practices of CPR, against and beyond marketand state-led approaches, provided that formal and informal principles and roles are designed and abided to. Literature (Bangratz and Förster, 2021;De Nictolis and Iaione, 2021) shows that legal-institutional support is crucial for the consolidation and thriving of UC projects, especially in their initial stages. In fact, the needed interlacing of institutional support and legal recognition together with informal, self-organized practices is known as the "commons paradox" (Feinberg et al, 2021), which is often at the basis of the difficulty to replicate commons projects in different contexts.…”

Section: Urban Commons and Temporary Urbanismmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the (Non)Institutional Disclosure of Urban Commons: Evidence, Practices and Challenges From the Netherlands and Belgium

Calzati

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Santos

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Casarola

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2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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The 2008 economic crisis has opened the door to new strategies for managing urban resources. In fact, the interest in urban commons (UC) has (re)surfaced both within and outside academia. While literature accounting for existing experiences is growing; UC as a practice begs for further systematization concerning the needed negotiation between institutional recognition and informal self-organization. This is particularly true for temporary urbanism, a strategy for the social repurposing of temporarily unused buildings, whose precarious nature has been deemed to represent just a fixing to the neoliberal logic. In this regard, a non-institutional perspective can help shed light on citymaking as a composite practice in which both institutional and non-institutional actors not only coexist but presuppose each other. In this paper, we explore this issue by focusing on two non-profit organizations working in the Rotterdam and Brussels's housing market: Stad in de Maak and Communa. Through in-depth interviews with the founders and core members of these organizations, as well as with participants to their projects, we show how SidM and Communa operate as intermediaries in the housing sector, filling the gaps left by the market and public actors. Most importantly, our research questions the extent to which the enacting of commoning practices by these organizations can become a pillar of citymaking, configuring an iterative disclosure and (collective) reclosure of urban resources. Evidence shows that, while enacting temporary urbanism differently, both organizations strive for social cooperative ownership of spaces for consolidating their presence in the cities.

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The City as a Commons Reloaded: from the Urban Commons to Co-Cities Empirical Evidence on the Bologna Regulation

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(Systemic) Design for Sustainable Territorial Transition: A Literature Review of State of the Art

(Systemic) Design for Sustainable Territorial Transition: A Literature Review of State of the Art

Beyond Collaboration: A Network Analysis of Local Stances and Global Frameworks in the Collective Design of the City

On the (Non)Institutional Disclosure of Urban Commons: Evidence, Practices and Challenges From the Netherlands and Belgium

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