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11 - The City as a Commons Reloaded

From the Urban Commons to Co-Cities Empirical Evidence on the Bologna Regulation

from Part IV - Urban Landscape and Infrastructure as a Commons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2021

Sheila R. Foster
Affiliation:
Georgetown University School of Law
Chrystie F. Swiney
Affiliation:
Georgetown University School of Law
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The City of Bologna is widely recognized for an innovative regulatory framework to enable urban commons. The “Regulation on public collaboration for the Urban Commons” produced more than 400 pacts of collaboration and was adopted by more than 180 Italian cities so far. The chapter presents an empirical assessment of 280 pacts (2014–2016). The analytical approach is rooted in the literature on political economyand quality of democracy. It investigates whether a model of co-governance applied to urban assets as commons impacts on the democratic qualities of equality and rule of law at the urban level. The findings suggest the need for an experimentalist policymaking approach to institutionally redesign the City as a platform enabling collective action of multi-stakeholder partnerships that should be entrusted with the task to trigger a neighborhood-based sustainable development.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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