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The Great Promise of Social Co-operatives
The austerity agenda is often presented as inevitable, which is really just a way for corporatists and conservatives to dismiss any discussion or debate. “There are no alternatives!” they thunder. But...
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Save the Teatro Valle Commons in Rome!
The three-year occupation of Teatro Valle in Rome is now legendary: a spontaneous response to the failures of conventional government in supporting a venerated public theater, and the conversion of...
View ArticleThe Teatro Valle Occupation Ends -- and a New Theater Commons Begins
The proposed privatization of the grand public theater in Rome, Teatro Valle, has been defeated – but perhaps more importantly, the historic three-year occupation of the building has succeeded in...
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LabGov Pioneers the Paradigm of City as Commons
What would it be like if city governments, instead of relying chiefly on bureaucratic rules and programs, actually invited citizens to take their own initiatives to improve city life? That’s what the...
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Bologna, a Laboratory for Urban Commoning
Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber argues in his recent book, The Utopia of Rules, that bureaucracy is the standard mechanism in contemporary life for coercing people to comply with the top-down...
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Commoners Descend on Chieri, Italy, for Major Festival
Italians once again took the vanguard in advancing the commons paradigm by hosting a three-day festival in Chieri, a town of 60,000 people on the outskirts of Torino, Italy. The International Festival...
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The City as Commons: The Conference
To judge from the fascinating crowd of 200-plus commoners who converged on Bologna, Italy, last week, it is safe to declare that a major new front in commons advocacy has come into focus – the city....
View ArticleMaking Networked Sharing Socially Beneficial, Not Just Predatory and Profitable
Every time Uber, the Web-based taxi intermediary, enters a new city, it provokes controversy about its race-to-the-bottom business practices and bullying of regulators and politicians. The problem...
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Synergia Summer Institute for Commonwealth Transition
Want an intensive introduction to the emerging “ethical economy” led by some of the most active practitioners and experts around? Consider attending an unusual two-week study program, “Transition to...
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A Surge of New Work on the City as a Commons
There has been a surge of new interest in the city as a commons in recent months – new books, public events and on-the-ground projects. Each effort takes a somewhat different inflection, but they all...
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