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Hi everyone, I’m an undergraduate senior from GWU in Washington DC, and I’d love to connect with everyone here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarakim2021/

Please add questions for Sheila in the chat

does your study includes/ has something to say about cooperative housing using commons?

I know the name of the project is “co-cities,” but do you think any of these approaches is also well-suited for (or could easily be adapted to) rural areas?

Do you have any suggestions for occupying vacant city owned property in NYC?

what are your thoughts about the “15-minute city” approach?also, glad to see the inclusion of community food spaces/urban farms/school gardens. how do you see the integration of food as a common as part of your concept and your project? thanks a lot Sheila in advance for your responses and your presentation!

'co-communities' in rural areas? @Bailey Hu

Has anything like this ever been done with public housing as way to engage residents in co-ownership and stewardship of the common areas?

Can you speak to the challenges of and approaches to engaging residents - particularly low-income residents who have limited free time as it is - in the process of collective governance?

Would such a 'method' also apply to different political Economies in contrast to the contexts you have described? Since I am from Palestine living in Jordan, I am intrigued how we could make such professional experiences and their practical implications transferrable to other contexts such as the ones mentioned located in the global South

thank you!

Sheila-I am working with a community group organizing around waste transfer stations in South Queens. I think that a City as Commons framing can propel and amplify the EJ narrative. Have you thought about the intersection between The Human Right to Breathe Clean Air and the City as Commons?

Can you describe the differentiation between the needs of youth and adult participants in Co-City projects?

“Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” is a free book from Shareable that features 137 case studies and model policies from over 75 cities around the world (including 596 Acres in NYC and Bologna’s policy for regenerating the Urban Commons): https://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities/

Thank you!

thank you Sheila! I do also agree with your point, and Julian´s about the 15-min approach.thanks as well for addressing my second question!

What sorts of leadership education has helped make more productive systems based planning in urban or rural settings,thinking of other LA-Safe like case studies from post Katrina in LA? See georgetownclimate tool kit case studies.

Thank you Sheila!

Sheila Foster’s lecture (and the Q&A) will be available on the “Cities@Tufts Lectures” podcast next week. https://www.shareable.net/cities-tufts/

You can learn more about Theresa Williamson’s work in the Favelas in Rio here: https://www.shareable.net/the-response-crowdsourcing-data-to-fight-the-pandemic-in-rios-favelas/

in Switzerland and France government agencies have the power to consolidate real estate to help establish cooperative housing in co-construction with communities