Cities

A bundle of rights and obligations: Privately Owned Public Spaces

A residence for emergency housing and impact tourism in Turin: Luoghi Comuni

A Város Mindenkié: resisting homelessness and housing crisis in Hungary

Accommodating innovation: temporary use and the access to vacant urban properties in Europe

Affordable space for artists – Berlin’s Studio Commissioner

Afrikaanderwijk – Pooling neighbourhood resources

Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative – Pooling Neighbourhood Resources

Agri-urbanism with social integration in Paris – Ferme du Rail

Alternatív kultúra, közösségi terek, civil infrastruktúra

ANVA – promoting the interests of food vendors in markets

Asset of Community Value legislation on paper vs. reality: A community perspective from Brighton & Hove 

Augustine newspaper: The social conscience of the city

Auróra – Egy ház a társadalmi aktivizmus számára

Banca Etica

Bikes and Rails: Co-housing with solidarity and an environmental mission

BIP/ZIP – Promoting partnerships in sensitive urban areas

Bockwerk – Crafts and skills for better refugee integration

Borghetto San Carlo – a young farmers’ cooperative

Bottega Artistico Musicale – Public-civic cooperation for independent culture

Bottega Artistico Musicale – Public-civic cooperation for independent culture

Brickstarter – Crowdfunding for urban services

Brunnenpassage: Activism and art strengthen each other

Building community and culture in Warsaw’s urban village – Exploring Open Jazdow

Busy as bees: A rooftop garden and a dynamic community hub for social integration – BeeOzanam in Turin

Carrozzerie n.o.t. – Where the theatrical workspace is ours

Carrozzerie n.o.t. – Where the theatrical workspace is ours

Casa Netural

Casa Netural – New economy for a small town

Cascina Roccafranca – The Public-Civic Governance of Space

Cascina Roccafranca – The Public-Civic Governance of Space

Cascina Roccafranca: The journey from farmhouse to community centre

Caught between the public and the private: urban cooperative solutions in Central Europe

Chikù: A Romani-Italian restaurant in Naples run by women

Citizen Innovation Maps – Visualising relevant communities as a tool to link us with our natural allies

Civic participation and the management of urban green spaces

Climate adaptation through participation: urban approaches from Vienna

Co-Hab Athens: changing the ownership paradigm in Athens

Co-Housing students and homeless people – VinziRast in Vienna

Collaborative housing: innovation in community engagement, social inclusion and participatory design 

Community Capital in Action: New Financial Models for Resilient Cities

Community Land Trust Bruxelles – Enabling low-income homeownership

Community Land Trusts – A model to secure community access to land

Complementary currencies for a commons-based economy

Confiscated spaces as a common resource

Coop57 – Financing projects in the social and solidarity economy

Coop57 – Financing projects in the social and solidarity economy

Coopearative City in Quarantine #10: MOBILITA’ – IT

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE # 10: Mobility

Cooperative City in Quarantine #1: INTRO – IT

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE #1: WEEKLY PODCAST

Cooperative City in Quarantine #11: VITA PUBBLICA – IT

Cooperative City in Quarantine #11: Public Life

Cooperative City in Quarantine #12: CENTRI DI COMUNITA’ – IT

Cooperative City in Quarantine #12: Community Spaces

Cooperative City in Quarantine #13: INCLUSIONE SOCIALE – IT

Cooperative City in Quarantine #13: Social Inclusion

Cooperative City in Quarantine #14: Manifesto – Planning post-Covid cities

Cooperative City in Quarantine #14: Manifesto – PROGETTARE CITTA’ POST-COVID – IT

Cooperative City in Quarantine #2: CIBO – IT

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE #2: Food

Cooperative City in Quarantine #3: CULTURA– IT

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE #3: Culture

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE #4: Community centres

Cooperative City in Quarantine #4: SPAZI DI COMUNITA’- IT

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE #5: Tourism

Cooperative City in Quarantine #5: TURISMO- IT

Cooperative City in Quarantine #6: BENI COMUNI – IT

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE #6: Urban commons

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE #7: Labour

Cooperative City in Quarantine #7: LAVORO – IT

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE #8: Education

Cooperative City in Quarantine #8: EDUCAZIONE – IT

Cooperative City in Quarantine #9: Refugees

Cooperative City in Quarantine #9: RIFUGIATI – IT

Cooperative City in Quarantine: Connecting local initiatives during the COVID-19 crisis

Cozinha Popular da Mouraria – A Social Kitchen for neighbourhood inclusion

Creating Soil from urban waste – experience of Maribor

CUP4Creativity: Can culture become the protagonist of social cohesion in Újbuda?

Cycling for alternative systems – The Cargonomia experiment in Budapest

Das Packhaus – a start-up community in a temporary-use project

De Besturing – From tenancy to collective ownership

De Besturing – From tenancy to collective ownership

De Pastory: Community services built on temporary use

Der Wiener Deewan: Solidarity is not a one-way street

Deviszont Közösségi Tér: a new community space for teenagers in the periphery of Budapest

Digital media for relational urban governance

Displaced – Co-designing refugee housing

Dynamo Velostation: making urban cycling easier for commuters in Bologna

Ecomuseo Casilino: an open-air museum in the Eastern periphery of Rome

EOOS Design – Design for refugees

Expert Perspectives on Urban Resilience in the Face of Pandemics

Exploring FRIEDA 23: a media and arts space in the city centre of Rostock

Exploring property: Perspectives of ownership

ExRotaprint – Community ownership against speculation

ExRotaprint – Community ownership against speculation

ExRotaprint: From industrial production to collective urban development

FABER Timisoara: A refurbished industrial site to boost the socio-creative scene

Färgfabriken: From producing paint to producing culture

Festival as exploration: Super Festival in Milan

Fostering community cooperation through a multifunctional private space: the case of Via Baltea in Torino

Foundations for affordable space – a Swiss case study

Fragnebenan – empowering neighbourhood life with a local social network.

Free Riga: A platform for temporary use

From ACTive NGOs to solidarity networks: civic ecosystems during and after COVID-19

From initiatives to synergies: Mapping Újbuda’s cultural scene

Funding the Cooperative City book presentations!

Funding the Cooperative City: Community Finance and the Economy of Civic Spaces

Fusolab Roma: Regenerating the periphery through education

Gamification and new scenarios for digital participation: tools and methods

Gangeviertel – Saving heritage through community mobilisation

Gangeviertel – Saving heritage through community mobilisation

Gender equal cities: How to improve women’s experiences in public spaces?

Gólya: collective ownership in a self-organised social and cultural centre

Gólya: cooperative management in Budapest

Goteo – Crowdsourcing community resources

Goteo – Crowdsourcing for open communities

Gradual space: Room for Diversity in the Future of Urban Public Spaces

Granby Four Streets CLT – From demolition to regeneration

Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust – From demolition to regeneration

HALLO: going beyond real estate speculation to create community spaces in Hamburg

Hallo: Going beyond real estate speculation to create community spaces in Hamburg

Homebaked – Anchoring the community through small businesses

How to strengthen the position of cities in the digital domain? Amsterdam’s ecosystem of cooperation

Il mercato è un incubatore di imprese giovanili – YOUNG MARKET LAB

Il Mercato Lorenteggio – Accompagnamento culturale dal basso nel quartiere

Il programma Bip/Zip Lotta alla povertà nei quartieri prioritari di Lisbona

Inclusion as urban strategy: the innovation trajectory of Gdańsk

Inclusion Potentials of Co-Housing – A look at OASE.inklusiv 

Interactive Cities – A conversation with Daniela Patti

Interactive Cities – Opportunities and threats of digital tools

Interazioni Urbane – Reactivating the market

Interazioni Urbane – Reactivating the market

Járókelő – A platform for street maintenance

Jobs and Skills in the Local Economy

Joe Driscoll: From activist to city legislator

Jurányi Incubator House – A home for performance arts

Jurányi Incubator House – A home for performance arts

KAŅIERIS: Riga’s Youth Centre for realising ideas

Kilowatt: Remodeling work through social environmental innovation

Kultura Nova: Supporting networks in the field of culture

L’Alveare – Co-working as social service

L’Alveare – Co-working as social service

La Cooperativa Coraggio – Le terre pubbliche come opportunità per i giovani agricoltori

La Cuciria – A circular economy-based sewing workshop

La Cuciria – A circular economy-based sewing workshop

La Food Policy di Milano – Come le politiche pubbliche incidono sul sistema alimentare della città

LaFabrika detodalavida – Revitalising a rural area

LaFabrika detodalavida – Revitalising a rural area

LaFabrika detodalavida – Revitalising a rural area

Laituri Helsinki – An urban laboratory to make strategies alive

Largo Residências – urban regeneration through local jobs

Largo Residências – Urban regeneration through local jobs

Largo Residências: Transforming a community through responsible tourism

Learning from each other: the possibilities of transferability

Lessons from community-led housing for city-makers across Europe

Locality – Supporting self-organisation in local communities

London Community Land Trust: Creating communities through affordable housing

MADRID AGROCOMPOSTA – Turning waste into resource

Madrid Agrocomposta – Turning waste into resource

Magdas Hotel – Refugees with tourism jobs in Vienna

magdas HOTEL: Changing the world while sleeping

Manifesto

MANIFESTO – IT

Mapping the Darsena: In search of visions, lost and found

MAR Movilidad – Mobility initiatives for a new economic ecosystem

Markthalle Neun

Masia Can Calopa: Cooperative Vineyard Plantation in Catalonia

Measuring social return: The case of the community centre Can Battló

Medialab Prado: a hub for social innovation

Mercato Metronio – the role of a market in creating a local community

Mercato Sonato: a hub for music and arts in a former market hall

Mindspace: A consultancy for urban regeneration in Budapest

Mobilising local resources: The Val di Noto Community Foundation

MÜSZI – Public functions in private spaces

Müszi – Public functions in private spaces

Neighbourhood Mothers – from the target group to actor

neoom: app-based support for energy communities in Austria

NEST Ghent – Creating a momentum through temporary use

New book: Open Heritage. Community-Driven Adaptive Reuse in Europe: Best Practice

New Book: The Power of Civic Ecosystems

New institutions and cooperative finance in times of austerity

New Life to Markets – regenerating public space in Rome

No single recipe to revive markets

NORDBAHNHALLE – Promoting mixed-use affordable spaces in Vienna

Nova Cvernovka: a creative and cultural centre breathing new life into an abandoned school complex

Nut & Feder: Joining forces through carpentry

Officine Zero – experimenting new ways of co-working

Ois In An: Social and ecological sustainability all-in-one

Ökokauf in Vienna – Procurement for sourcing ecological food

Overcoming isolation: Multigenerational and multicultural co-housing in Sweden

Paralelní Polis – Virtual economy for community spaces

Participatory governance mechanisms of a social-cultural centre in Dubrovnik

Peter Weiss Haus: a literary centre in Rostock

PIGS, from crisis to self-organisation

PlaceCity participatory interventions with students for better school spaces

Planning a new cultural venue: Connecting to Újbuda’s existing institutional tissue

Planning a new cultural venue: Exploring the needs of the local cultural ecosystem

Plateau Urbain – Temporary use for new ecosystems of work

Polis Athens: citizen-led urban regeneration through pop-up activities

Precariousness, double standards and racism in housing refugees

Protecting common assets from privatisation: Poveglia per Tutti in Venice

Public policies in support of civic initiatives

Public procurement with social impact

Purple Sheep – A restaurant with refugees

Rákóczi Collective – Alternatives to individual homeownership

Reclaiming non-places in winter: what placemaking can do for us during a pandemic

Reclaiming public space through tactical urbanism: Milan’s Piazze Aperte programme

Redefining Post-Coronavirus Travel: Does Barcelona Hold the Key?

Regulating crowdfunding – International resources for local communities?

Regulating the Urban Commons – What we can learn from Italian experiences

Reprogramming Barcelona: Towards a new paradigm of public space

Revolutionary social centre in an occupied prison – Ex OPG in Naples

Rewarding green actions: a digital platform for citizen engagement in Prato

Rome’s interconnected, holistic and circular food policy

SANNAS – Creating a local network of cooperation among various enterprises

Sex and the City

ShareTown: digital technology as a tool to envision cooperation between citizens and government

Shuffle Festival – Crowdfunding for legitimacy

So Stay: Poland’s first socially responsible hotel

Social housing with self-determination: Wiener Wohnen’s quest to involve tenants in decision-making

Social Solidarity Economy in Barcelona: The Ecos Cooperative

Solidarity Everyday – A space for social initiatives inside the European Solidarity Centre

Spacehive – Crowdfunding for local projects

Spazio 13 – School revitalisation for social inclusion

Spores Home – A self-sustaining co-living space that is a second home

Spreefeld – Cooperative housing with public access

Spreefeld – Cooperative housing with public access

Squicity – piloting short chain food delivery in Rome

SQUICITY – SPERIMENTARE LA FILIERA CORTA DEL CIBO A ROMA

Stad in de Maak – From crisis to a shared ownership model

Stará Tržnica – New purpose for a public building

Stara Trznica – New purpose for a public building

Stará Tržnica: Breathing life into an old market hall

Stiftung Edith Maryon – Buildings for socially relevant uses

Stiftung Trias – Taking properties out of the speculation market

Stiftung trias – Taking properties out of the speculation market

Strengthening local cultural scenes: The Local Operators’ Platform

Superar: Overcoming barriers through music education

Szatyorbolt – Buy and consume local

Szeszgyár: An ecofeminist, queer community garden in the centre of Budapest

Tackling urban poverty in Bari

Tartu’s new masterplan – A platform for ideas by citizens

TERRITORIALISING EUROPEAN DEBATE – Preparing for the 2019 EU elections and the post-2020 funding strategy

The Art of Traveling Light: Tourism with a Positive Impact

The Bip/Zip strategy – empowering local communities in priority districts of Lisbon

The Metropolitan Institute of Bratislava: The Slovak capital’s urban think-and-do-tank

The Peissnitzhaus – Renovation with community shares

The Peissnitzhaus – Renovation with community shares

The power of co-creation in redesigning Valencia’s waterfront

The promotion of the commons in Naples: from self-organisation to co-governance

The story of the Lazareti Heritage Complex

The Ute Bock Association: Building on a legacy of inclusion

The Welcome Class – Language learning for social integration

The Wiener Tafel: Building bridges between abundance and need

There’s more to Digital Democracy than just a tweet

Thriving Streets: a journey through the cities innovating mobility and public spaces for all

Toestand – Temporary use for mixing communities

Toolbox Torino – Spaces for work, made of community and stimuli

Toplocentrala: from vacant industrial space to arts laboratory

Towards a More Social Europe: Inclusion and innovation in three UIA projects

Tudigo – Local crowdfunding for territorial impact

Turin’s Tavolo Tecnico: Inter-departmental cooperation for the commons

Uno spazio di comunità pazzesco – Ex OPG di Napoli

Urban lessons learnt from the pandemic

Urban redevelopment at the neighbourhood scale: the case of Bagni Pubblici di via Agliè 9 in Torino

Užupis Republic: A self-governing micronation in the Lithuanian capital

Variante Bunker: temporary use of a land in between vacancy and master-planning in Torino

Vibrant streets make cities better: nine stories from Thriving Street

Vienna’s Wohnpartner: Overcoming conflicts in social housing  

VinziRast: Volunteer-based support hub

Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas – Mapping and co-producing citizen initiatives

Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas – Mapping and co-producing citizen initiatives

WASTED – How to create local welfare from waste management

We defend markets – citizens’ initiative to protect the public good

Welcommon Hostel: sustainable tourism and social-cultural activities for the promotion of social innovation

Wikitoki – sharing non-monetary resources

Wikitoki – Sharing non-monetary resources

Zappata Romana – connecting urban gardening communities

ZOHO – Development with a hundred investors

ZOHO – Development with a hundred investors

Zukunftshof: An agricultural city laboratory at the edge of Vienna