By Laura Roth, Bertie Russell, ROAR Magazine
In moving together, municipalist movements are already demonstrating internationalism — in the “old” sense of working together across boundaries. Yet this internationalism provides the crucible for working towards internationalism in a “new” sense...
By Heather Haylett, Project for Public Spaces
This September, Bike Easy and a large coalition of partners are working with the City of New Orleans to create Connect the Crescent – a connected, protected bikeway network in the heart of the city – showcasing a bold vision to improve biking, walking, and riding transit.
By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com
The Right to the City is a core ingredient in the radical municipalist movement now spreading across cities worldwide, driven by local issues.
By Wayne Roberts, Resilience.org
The powers and resources of city governments must be protected and enhanced to provide proper oversight and governance of new food challenges.
By Fernanda Marin, OuiShare
Cities are still places where the poor and modest middle classes can actually live. They participate in the local economy, a partial one, but one where they create their opportunities.
By Kelvin Campbell, Resilience.org
The Massive Small compendium is a sourcebook of ideas, tools and tactics to help build viable urban neighbourhoods. It is a bold and ambitious project aimed at ‘changing hearts and minds’,
By P2P Staff, P2P Foundation
Xarxa per la sobirania energètica (Xse) Catalonia brings like-minded groups together to fight for change in the energy sector locally, and collaborates with similar initiatives elsewhere in Spain, Europe and Latin America.
By Kevin Carson, P2P Foundation
Following an introduction by Gorenflo, in which he summarizes the background of the Sharing Cities movement, states its basic principles and assesses its significance, the book — a collaborative effort by fifteen people — provides over two hundred pages of case studies of local sharing economy projects in dozens of cities.
By Dan Favre, Project for Public Spaces
Mobility in the Netherlands is approached holistically within the urban fabric and in incorporated into how cities are more generally organized.
By Staff, Red Pepper, Red Pepper
Around the world, new municipal movements are transforming the way we provide – and think about – housing. From campaigning against evictions to innovative forms of public housing to requisitioning empty properties and engaging many more people in decisions about how and where we live, municipal projects are responding to the global housing crisis, locally.