Evolutionary Cities

How the Commons Can Boost the Prospects of One Town

The collective impulse to act, to become, to evolve or grow is activated at a fundamental level around the recognition of a shared resource or resources – and the intentional stewardship of those resources. Jay Walljasper author of All That We Share describes the variety of resources that the Winona citizens …

Pocket Neighborhoods: The Future of the American Housing Industry?

Inspired by Ross Chapin’s work shared with you earlier last year here at: http://evolutionarycities.com/2012/06/02/the-philosophy-and-design-of-pocket-neighborhoods students and professors at the University of Arkansas set up and designed the Rock Street project: “Fascinatingly, the AIA jurors are calling Rock Street a model for not only the regeneration of blighted core neighborhoods but also …

Commoning Patterns & Patterns of Commoning

The Commoning of Patterns and the Patterns of Commoning: A Short Sketch

In our increasingly complex urban age where the rate of change and innovation is rapidly increasing, the rigidity of outdated linear and analytic Cartesian design methods are being exposed as insufficient to meet the needs of the environment and the people. This is compounded by the insistence on the ideology of austerity and …

Can Cities Develop Governance that Produces a Non-Monstrous Hybrid? Integral City Systems of Survival

Re-posted from Integral Life, 27th November by Marilyn Hamilton. Why Not Just Privatize the Government? Back in the days of my impressionable (but contrarian) 1960’s youth, I followed the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand with some considerable zeal. I was an avid free-enterpriser and imagined that we would be better …

The City as Network and Commons

Re-posted from Shareable.net By Neal Gorenflo, 11/13/12. Occupy Wall Street broke a silence. What was long only whispered between friends was shouted from the centers of hundreds of cities across the globe — that a grand economic experiment has failed. A gaping chasm has opened up between the rich and the rest, …

Collective Intelligence in Cities Brings Potent Solutions

“Cities offer the most resilient evolutionary path, which is an extremely high value-added proposition made eminently more possible with our collective intelligence.” ~ Warren Karlenzig. At the heart of Evolutionary Cities and the rising commons based economy is the embrace of collective intelligence between citizens across sectors. In this fascinating TEDxMission …

Interviewed: David Harvey on Rebel Cities

Reposted from Shareable.net, 5th September 2012, by Chris Carlsson. Introduction by Neal Gorenflo, Publisher of Shareable One of the legacies of socialist “Red Vienna” in the 1920s is a huge stock of quality housing owned by the city available at below-market rates. This not only makes affordable housing widely available, …

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