Het Nieuwe Tussen 2019

The Co-Cities Report 30 cooperative development initiative aimed at supporting people of color and others with barriers to formal employment to create worker cooperative businesses, or the experience of international public institutions such as UN Habitat with the Safer cities program, launched in 1996 at the request of African Mayors seeking to tackle urban crime and violence in their cities and has evolved towards time is an integrated, multi-level government and multi-sectoral approach to improving the livability of cities and quality of urban life. The aim of the Rockefeller Bellagio Retreat was to gather representatives of different actors from the Quintuple Helix governance of urban innovation at the global level in order to explore potential applications of the Co-city/city as a commons 2 model to co-create and sustain more just and inclusive cities. Among the potential outputs of a global experimental application of the Co-City process is the development a set of tools to design urban justice and democracy and thereby also measure the implementation of some of the New Urban Agenda goals, such as those i 13 and 91, or the Sustainable development goals (SDGs) 16 and 17, in particular the subgoal 16.7, 17.17 and 17.19. We run a deeper analysis of what we believe on the basis of the above-described assessment to be the “lighthouse Co-cities”, which are those cities on which a deeper and in depth analysis and eventually an experimentation should be carried out: a) Bologna; b) Barcelona where the role of the local government is crucial in this phase and is promoting a radical approach to the commons; c) Madrid, whose government issued legislations for the regeneration of public buildings for fostering civic activities, also on the model of the Bologna regulation for public governance of the Urban Commons; d) Amsterdam, where the local administration is putting serious efforts in institutional and legal innovations for the urban commons; e) Seoul, where we the approach is focused on the top-down promotion of sharing of key urban assets and in the fight against urban isolation through community building; e) Naples, which […]; f) Gent, which […]; Messina, which […]. The first and most important understanding from this first phase of analysis is that cities where this vision of the urban commons transition is present are those where a really strong Enabling State is present. The Enabling State could be initiating, supporting or being pushed to adopt the co-governance attitude of city inhabitants and local communities. In cities like Bologna or Turin, where civic collaboration has always been a characteristic of the history of the city and where that urged policymakers to improve or redesign an already enabling administration, or cities like Amsterdam, Seoul, Gent where the Mayor or some local policymakers initiated and induced this approach more than enabling and urged the administration to adopt this approach and organize accordingly. There are also cities like Barcelona, Madrid, Messina and Naples where this tradition was not present or was not as strong but city inhabitants and local communities have surged to power thanks to this approach and by organizing political movements to conquer City Hall. The Co-City Index Beyond the creation an international mapping platform for the urban commons, this research projects represents a significant contribution to the international urban community, as it ultimately proposes one of the first evaluation standards to measure the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals as well as the New Urban Agenda and the European Urban Agenda in cities around the world. As previously mentioned, the empirical testing of the Co- Cities dimensions or design principles through the observation of public policies and community-led practices around the commons in urban context led to the building of a Co-City Index, a measuring instrument that can classify cities based on a gradient. The value of this research therefore lies in the design of such an index – the Co-City index – that will serve as a powerful tool for cities and administrations around the world in order to measure the implementation of the principles listed in the SDGs and the New Urban Agenda. Indeed, while widely shared, the SDGs and the principles included in the New Urban Agenda hardly ever suggest a clear policy design or implementation strategy in order to secure the success of public policies in our cities. Especially in the case of concepts like ‘the right to the city’, it becomes extremely difficult to establish whether a city has been able to implement such a principle, and in turn what kind of examples are to be followed in order to implement it. The Co-Cities Open Book therefore aims at providing methodological principles, case studies analysis, and quantitative tools that can help implement and measure the effective implementation of Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda especially in Least Developed Countries. The Protocol presented in the Open Book has in fact been already tested in European and North American cities. Its application can further represent a useful opportunity