[P2P-F] draft of a report on urban commons transitions

[Kevin Carson]

Excellent! I just wrote a paper on the same general theme and
submitted the draft to C4SS. I wish I'd read this before I finished
the draft. As it is I quote material from the P2PF quite a bit.

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:37 AM, Michel Bauwens
<michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
> my reflections, with Vasilis Niaros, on the experience, which we wrote in
> the summer, manuscript at
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/10EprOpoIimqipGpBBBxLKhjEe6xqLNhoHz3SVGL6PYE/edit#
>
> for others who might be interested:
>
> Changing Societies through Urban Commons Transitions
>
>
> By Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros
>
> Contents
>
> Executive Summary 2
>
> 1. The Centrality of Urban Commons in the Social-Ecological Transition 7
>
> 1.1. Understanding the global conjuncture in which urban commons emerge 8
>
> 1.1.1. Placing the re-emergence of urban commons in a ‘material’ historical
> context 8
>
> 1.1.2. The political conjuncture for the urban commons as locus for societal
> change 12
>
> 1.1.3. The role of the commons in reducing the material footprint of
> humanity 13
>
> 1.1.4. The challenge of meaningful work in the age of Trumpism 15
>
> 1.2. The challenge of urban commons for the actors in the city 15
>
> 1.2.1. Contributory democracy as a challenge to representative democracy 15
>
> 1.2.2. The generative economy as a challenge to market power 16
>
> 1.2.3. The commons as a challenge to traditional civil society organisations
> 17
>
> 2. Recent Developments in Urban Commons Transitions 18
>
> 2.1. Grassroots initiatives in urban commons transitions 18
>
> 2.1.1. Developments in the Global North 18
>
> 2.1.2. Developments in the Global South 19
>
> 2.1.3. The Assemblies of the Commons as the ‘voice’ of the commoners 20
>
> 2.2. Commons-oriented municipal coalitions 22
>
> 2.2.1. The rationale for our case study choices 22
>
> 2.2.2. The city of Barcelona 23
>
> 2.2.3. The city of Bologna 26
>
> 2.2.4. The city of Naples 28
>
> 2.2.5. The city of Milan 29
>
> 2.2.6. The city of Frome 30
>
> 2.2.7. The city of Ghent 31
>
> 3. Towards a Coherent Institutional Design for Public-Commons Partnerships
> 35
>
> 3.1 The basic concepts underlying public-commons partnerships 35
>
> 3.2 How is the Commons Transition Plan in Ghent related to the FLOK Society
> Project in Ecuador? 37
>
> 3.3 A three-pronged strategy for the commons transition 38
>
> 3.4. An institutional design for the city administration 39
>
> 3.5. Other proposals 41
>
> 3.6. Towards a global infrastructure for commons-based provisioning 44
>
> Acknowledgments 45
>
> References 45
>
>
> --
> Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org
>
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