What is the Magazine about?
Cooperative City Magazine brings its readers the stories of collaborative urban development processes in different areas in Europe.
It is a project run by Eutropian, a company and association developing collaborative planning processes in various cities in Europe.
Kazán Energy Community Budapest: Community Energy Rooted in Solidarity and Co-Ownership
In a post-industrial area of Budapest’s 8th district, Kazán Community House operates from the former offices of a heavy-machine factory, now transformed into a collectively owned hub for urban solidarity. This multi-layered “social engine” is home
Kazán Energy Community Budapest: Community Energy Rooted in Solidarity and Co-Ownership
In a post-industrial area of Budapest’s 8th district, Kazán Community House operates from the former offices of a heavy-machine factory, now transformed into a collectively owned hub for urban solidarity. This multi-layered “social engine” is home to a community daycare, an independent radio station, and various civil society organisations. Anchored
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Jurányi Art Incubator House: towards artistic and energy independence
Imagine a 6,700-square-metre “village in the city” where every floor hums with the energy of theatre rehearsals, yoga classes, and NGO strategy meetings. This is
The Generation That Broke the System: How Hungary’s Youth Reclaimed Their Future
Op-ed by Lukács Hayes, Co-Founder of Cooperative City and Leader of the Katalizátor Program Walking the streets of Budapest this May, the air feels fundamentally
Repair culture: a socio-ecological strategy to lower mass consumption and production
Over the course of the 20th century, with the gradual emergence of the “throw-away” culture, especially in the wealthier regions of the world, people began
Cohabit: Sweden’s Circular Student Furnishing Startup
In Malmö, Sweden, Cohabit is tackling a perennial issue faced by hundreds, if not thousands, of students: how to furnish empty, temporary student accommodation. Cohabit’s
Placemaking
What kinds of financial support and solidarity structures are needed to help community-led development projects flourish?
Gamification
How to make digital interaction more engaging and fun? We explore the use of digital games to experience and design your city.
Urban commons
How can urban commons strengthen communities and help face the upcoming social and economic challenges? Produced in cooperation with the gE.Co project.
Manifesto to Action
We advocate for existing knowledge, policy recommendations and financial resources to be geared towards the strengthening of social and solidarity economy practices throughout Europe.
Solidarity City Vienna
Solidarity City Vienna is a platform of Cooperative City. It promotes and strengthens social and solidarity economy practices, mapping 12 initiatives that focus on social inclusion, fair employment, participation, sustainable food systems, ethical consumption and responsible tourism.
magdas HOTEL: Changing the world while sleeping
This retro-style hotel next to the famous Prater park is the first hotel in Austria that is run as a social business. It is dedicated to the integration of people with a refugee background and helping them overcome barriers at the job market.
Bikes and Rails: Co-housing with solidarity and an environmental mission
Self-managed and affordable, ecological and inclusive, Bikes and Rails' concept provides for buying houses collectively through private financing, freeing them from the market in the long term and thus securing affordable housing.
Zukunftshof: An agricultural city laboratory at the edge of Vienna
A former farm at the southern edge of Vienna’s Favoriten district, Zukunftshof brings innovative urban agriculture, water management and sustainable energy production closer to the people, integrating old traditions and former residents in new urban developments
