Daniela Patti & Levente Polyák & others
Cooperative City Books
2017
🌍 Context and Background "Funding the Cooperative City" is a publication edited by Daniela Patti and Levente Polyák, released by Cooperative City Books in Vienna in September 2017. The book is a vital exploration of community-led urban development in European cities during a period marked by austerity measures, unemployment, and the financialization of real estate. It emphasizes the importance of self-organized, locally rooted, and resilient community networks and civic spaces. 🏙️ Key Themes and Focus The book delves into the landscape of urban development in Europe, highlighting various cities including Lisbon, Madrid, Rome, Liverpool, Rotterdam, Berlin, Warsaw, Bratislava, and Budapest. It presents strategies for fundraising, investment, self-organization, resistance, and cooperation with institutions. The authors examine how citizen initiatives, cooperatives, non-profit organizations, community land trusts, crowdfunding platforms, ethical banks, and anti-speculation foundations are navigating away from traditional real estate development dynamics. They are creating new mechanisms to access, purchase, renovate, or construct buildings that serve community needs. 💡 Community Finance and Civic Economy The publication compiles interviews and analyses, detailing trends and contexts in community finance and civic economy. It offers valuable resources for community organizations and civic space initiators, as well as for private developers, municipalities, and EU institutions interested in supporting and collaborating with these initiatives. The book aims to foster more resilient and inclusive local communities and services. 📚 Contributions and Resources "Funding the Cooperative City" features contributions from various experts and practitioners in the field, including names such as Tiago Mota Saraiva from Ateliermob, Bryan Boyer from Brickstarter, and Massimo Marinacci from Banca Etica. Each contributor brings unique insights into community finance and urban development, providing a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and solutions in creating sustainable urban environments. 🔗 Accessibility and Licensing With 244 pages, the book is available in a B5 paper format and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. This allows for sharing and adaptation as long as proper credit is given, making it a resourceful material for anyone interested in the future of urban community development.
Funding the Cooperative City: Community Finance and the Economy of Civic Spaces
Edited by Daniela Patti & Levente Polyák (Eutropian Research & Action)
Publisher: Cooperative City Books, Vienna, September 2017
Format: Paper size B5, 244 pages
ISBN 978-3-9504409-0-4
The book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
More information: info@cooperativecity.org
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Funding the Cooperative City explores experiments in community-led urban development in European cities. Situated in the post-welfare transition of European societies within the context defined by austerity measures, unemployment, the financialisation of real estate stocks and the gradual withdrawal of public administrations from social services, this book aims at highlighting the importance of self-organised, locally rooted, inclusive and resilient community networks and civic spaces.
In a journey from Lisbon, Madrid and Rome, via Liverpool, Rotterdam and Berlin, through Warsaw, Bratislava and Budapest, Funding the Cooperative City highlights different strategies of fundraising and investment; self-organisation, resistance and cooperation with institutions; and explores the ways citizen initiatives, cooperatives, non-profit companies, community land trusts, crowdfunding platforms, ethical banks and anti-speculation foundations step out of the regular dynamisms of real estate development and arrange new mechanisms to access, purchase, renovate or construct buildings for communities.
Through interviews and analyses, this book describes tendencies and contexts, and presents stories and models of community finance and civic economy. It offers a helpful set of resources not only for community organisations and initiators of civic spaces, but also for private developers, municipalities and EU institutions that are willing to support, facilitate or cooperate with them in order to create more resilient and inclusive local communities, facilities and services.
With contributions from Tiago Mota Saraiva (Ateliermob, Lisbon), Hanna Szemző (Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest), Jan Mazur (Stará Tržnica, Bratislava), Bryan Boyer (Brickstarter, Helsinki), Carmen Lozano Bright (Goteo, Madrid), Alexandre Laing (Bulb in Town, Paris), Lizzy Daish (Shuffle Festival), Carlos Muñoz Sanchez (LaFabrika detodalavida, Los Saintos de Maimona), Christian Grauvogel (Mörchenpark e.V., Berlin), Massimo Marinacci (Banca Etica, Rome), Miguel Ángel Martinez Polo (Coop 57, Madrid), Rolf Novy-Huy (Stiftung trias, Hattingen), Ulrich Kriese (Stiftung Edith Maryon, Basel), Daniela Brahm and Les Schliesser (ExRotaprint, Berlin), Laurence Beuchat (Geneva), Michał Augustyn (Wymiennik, Warsaw), Martin Leskovjan (Paralelní Polis, Prague), Bea Varnai (UrbaMonde, Paris), Marc Neelen (Stad in de Maak, Rotterdam), Júlia Bársony (Müszi, Budapest), Viktória Rozgonyi-Kulcsár (Jurányi Ház, Budapest), Francesco Montagna and Maura Teofili (Carrozzerie n.o.t., Rome), Martine Zoeteman (De Besturing, The Hague), Annet van Otterloo (Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie, Rotterdam), Hans Karssenberg and Jeroen Laven (ZoHo, Rotterdam), Tamina Lolev (Nod makerspace, Bucharest), Mauro Baioni (Pordenone), Miguel Correia de Brito (BIP/ZIP programme, Lisbon), Elly Townsend (Locality, London), Ulrich Möbius (Peißnitzhaus, Halle/Saale), Stefania de Masi (Cascina Roccafranca, Turin), Mauro Gil-Fournier (Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas, Madrid)