{"product_id":"cocities-isbn-9780262539982","title":"Co-Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe majority of the world’s inhabitants live in cities, but even with the vast wealth and resources these cities generate, their most vulnerable populations live without adequate or affordable housing, safe water, healthy food, and other essentials. And yet, cities also often harbor the solutions to the inequalities they create, as this book makes clear. With examples drawn from cities worldwide, \u003ci\u003eCo-Cities\u003c\/i\u003e outlines practices, laws, and policies that are presently fostering innovation in the provision of urban services, spurring collaborative economies as a driver of local sustainable development, and promoting inclusive and equitable regeneration of blighted urban areas. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIdentifying core elements of these diverse efforts, Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione develop a framework for understanding how certain initiatives position local communities as key actors in the production, delivery, and management of urban assets or local resources. Within this framework, they explain the forms such initiatives increasingly take, like community land trusts, new kinds of co-housing, neighborhood cooperatives, community-shared broadband and energy networks, and new local offices focused on citizen science and civic imagination. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe “Co-City” framework is uniquely rooted in the authors’ own decades-long research and first-hand experience working in cities around the world. Foster and Iaione offer their observations as “design principles”—adaptable to local context—to help guide further experimentation in building just and self-sustaining urban communities.Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Rethinking the City 33\u003cbr\u003e2 The Urban Commons 61\u003cbr\u003e3 The City as a Commons 103\u003cbr\u003e4 Urban Co-Governance 149\u003cbr\u003e5 The Co-City Design Principles 191\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: New Co-City Horizons and Challenges 219\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 239\u003cbr\u003eNotes 255\u003cbr\u003eReferences 257\u003cbr\u003eIndex 293“Rarely does one read a theoretical and practical-based work that delivers a framework derived from research and analysis on policies and programs implemented in cities located on six of the world’s continents or major geographic regions.… Planning academicians and others involved in urban research and collective action concerned with praxis for advancing stewardship should read \u003ci\u003eCo-Cities\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJournal of the American Planning Association\u003c\/b\u003e“Since their emergence over 10,000 years ago, cities have been a piece of shared infrastructure. In light of today’s technological advances, this book compellingly advances the idea of the city as a commons.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Carlo Ratti, Professor of Urban Technologies, MIT; Planning Director, MIT Senseable City Lab\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCo-Cities\u003c\/i\u003e presents a fresh perspective to our understanding of urban life, and the transformative role of collaboration and negotiation in the redistribution of urban resources and the making of just cities.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Taibat Lawanson, Professor of Urban Management and Governance, University of Lagos, Nigeria\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Viewing cities as both the cause and the solution for the most pressing problems of our time, this book shows that the transformation of urban areas into co-cities can promote inclusiveness and equality, social innovation, and collaborative economies.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Yishai Blank, Dean, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law\u003c\/b\u003eSheila R. Foster is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy at Georgetown University, where she holds a joint appointment with the Georgetown Law Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy. She is also Codirector of LabGov.City. Christian Iaione is Professor of Urban Law and of Policy and Law and Policy of Innovation and Sustainability at Luiss University in Rome, Italy, Codirector of LabGov.City, and Affiliated Fellow of the Urban Law Center at Fordham University.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304648790245,"sku":"NP9780262539982","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262539982.jpg?v=1767723863","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/cocities-isbn-9780262539982","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}