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A few times a year, we round up the top new books about cities, sharing, collaboration, social tech, movement trends and more. Here are 21 books worth checking out for Shareable summer reading.
Earlier this month, Shareable posted a short article about the Little Free Pantry in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Created by Jessica McClard, the Pantry is an easy way for people to share surplus food and household goods, and access items they may need.
Ballarat St permanent park providing green space for the people of Yarraville (Melbourne).
In the first of a series on the changing nature of urban space, academic geographer and gonzo urbanist Bradley L Garrett discusses ‘Pops’ – privately owned public spaces – and asks who our cities are really for
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REGISTER FOR THE EVENTThis conference is organised in cooperation with Commons Network and Heinrich Böll Foundation. INTRODUCTIONThe Internet as a whole has become an important part of o
Bologna's Mayor Merola about to give civic collaborators keys to the city at the recent Civic Collaboration Fest It all began with park benches.
Have you started a summer reading list? For those of us interested in the sharing economy, there is no shortage of great reads. Whether your interests lie in collaboration, sustainable cities, community-building, simplicity, or work in the new economy, there is something for everyone. We’ve rounded up the top 21 books for summer to inspire, empower, and inform.
“The care of human life and happiness…is the only legitimate object of good government,”—Thomas Jefferson, 1809.
Out now: The Real-time Lives of Cities: Digital Public Spaces as a New Space for Public Art in the Information Era Abstract: “The contemporary city interweaves its digital and physical spaces to form a new urban space.
Detroit's downtown parks long have been places where people exercise their constitutional right to assemble peaceably, but does private management of public spaces now stand in their way?
Use of the internet has not led to a predominance of virtual actions and movements over mobilizations in ‘physical space’. On the contrary, since 2011 the occupation of urban public spaces - and more particularly symbolic spaces - has been a major feature of these movements.
You could never accuse New York of lacking imagination, with its plans for green space in the heart of Manhattan. First, there was the High Line, a park built on elevated railway tracks.
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A pristine beach in New Zealand bought through a crowdfunding campaign is handed to its new owners - the public.
A family-friendly placemaking campaign in Providence, RI. Photo by PPS The placemaking movement is all about creating hands-on, collective solutions to improve a neighborhood, city, or region—to make it more shareable. It capitalizes on existing community assets and results in public spaces that improve people’s health, happiness, and well being. As the Project for Public Spaces (PPS) website explains,
The project aims to create an environment of and by women, who are unlearning warnings. The participants, also known as 'Action Heroes',...
Our fortieth year at Project for Public Spaces was an exciting one, and it took us all over the world, from the public markets of Barcelona to Stockholm’s City Hall. For some time, placemaking was a strong but “quiet movement.” But after the year we just had, we think it’s safe to say that the secret is out.
by Chiara Camponeschi and Hillete Warner There are countless ways vibrant neighbourhoods and strong communities help people live better lives. In the age of “connected loneliness,” having neighbours to borrow that proverbial cup of sugar from is not only a way to share resources more effectively, but a great way to see the neighbourhood itself transformed into a powerful resource in its own right.
London's parks could become inaccessible to the public as a lack of funding makes it increasingly likely they will be sold to private companies, a committee chair warns.
Dan Acher and his collaborators at Happy City Lab created this handy guide to setting up your own Neighborhood Exchange Box (for exchanging used goods with neighbors) which you can do in four easy steps: 1. Locate it
Tucked away in the basement of Denver’s Smiley Library Branch is the Northwest Denver Toy Library. Founded in 1980, the toy library has been serving the community entirely through donations and volunteers. Last week, I sat down with Margie Herlth, who leads the operation and has been volunteering since 1996, to learn how the toy library works.
How much thought do you give to pavement? Our cities are covered with it, but it’s not exactly a hot topic of conversation—though it should be. Pavement causes all sorts of problems including the fact that water can’t soak through it and instead runs across it, collecting pollutants and biological contaminants that make their way into waterways, plants, animals, and ourselves.
Under the viaduct is a project aiming at recovering the Viadotto dei Presidenti, an infrastructure located in the North- Eastern periphery of Rome, whose construction was abandoned more than 10 years ago and has never been completed.
Libraries are vital community spaces. But many face shrinking budgets. They also face an increasingly-digital landscape, which requires new approaches to stay relevant. A new toolkit aims to help librarians use design thinking to create innovative programs for their libraries.
Liverpool City Council are trying to sell historic Walton Hall Park. To who? Greedy property developers who will trash the park, build a football stadium, tacky fast food outlets and retail. Locals...
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