Het Nieuwe Tussen 2019

The Co-Cities Report 26 development, social engagement, answering issues of inclusion, poverty and diversity, and ecological sustainability. Analysis ● Geographical Dimension: Melbourne; ● Catchment area: from neighborhood to city- wide; ● Urban collective governance: participatory grassroots initiatives; ● The enabling State: no support from public bodies; ● Poolism: collective intelligence of collaborative makermaps and collective physical resources; ● Experimentalism: participatory action research methodologies; ● Tech justice 48) Christchurch, New Zealand Summary Gapfiller received a square of land for a zero dollar lease after the earthquake destroyed much of the city. The Commons, and its council of stakeholder, created a framework for community initiatives to be created on site, but in practice needs to do a lot of initiatives through one paid staffer. The city government is sympathetic , has a representative on the council, but there is no security of tenure. The success also depends on a number of NGO’s providing volunteer and free services, on business support for specific activities, and on rents from food trucks and the like. With this support in mind, the project is break even. The Commons Council has a multi-stakeholder governance and has set up a charter with principles to filter the usage proposals on the site. Analysis ● Geographical Dimension: one square in post- quake Christchurch; ● Catchment area: Square and surroundings; ● Urban collective governance: multi- stakeholder Commons Council; ● The Enabling State: city is supportive, zero- dollar lease, but no security of tenure; ● Poolism: creation of public space for community activities, self-managed; ● Experimentalism: no specific methodology, but broadly informed by Ostrom principles; ● Tech justice: 3.3.5 Asia Western Asia, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia (South Korea: Seoul; India: Bangalore) 49) Tel Aviv, Israel “Urban Sustainability” is a project of the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research, led from 2013 to 2016. It is the continuation of a previous project called "Sustainability Outlook 2030" – undertaken by the Institute and the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection – and focuses on the importance of cities as crucial contexts for human activities and environmental change, and on sociology-studies on human behavior as "soft" ways of effective change in urban lifestyles. Given these background’s key-principles, the urban level has been individuated as the most suitable dimension in order to accommodate and foster initiatives aiming to achieve more sustainable lifestyles. During the research “The Sustainable City” has been defined as “a city that enables people to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of dignity, within and outside the city. Its infrastructure and the material, natural, human and social resources at its disposal, offer fair and efficient opportunities for its users, and the city takes a responsible role in the management of global ecosystems. The city enhances a sense of responsibility among its inhabitants for its physical and cultural heritage and for future generations”. The second part of the research consisted then in the evaluation of the background vision in practice, realized through the launch of several pilot projects and test-cases in different Urban Labs: targeted experiments designed to test principles' potential for effective change within the reality of life in Israel and the barriers impeding it, and then – in the third and