COMMONS MAGAZINE
Community Life Locally-based commons build the “social wealth” of our communities. It is therefore important to create and maintain an independent business sector, inviting public spaces, local agricultural initiatives, and other vital community systems.
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By Victor Bautista under a Creative Commons license
A student skateboards to school on the Indianapolis Cultural Trail (By Sciondriver under a Creative Commons license)
By Michael Geminder under a Creative Commons licesne
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Photo by Dan Burden
Piada 52 is cooperative cafe in Forli, Italy, hiring unemployed kids, which has helped rivitalize a park once known for drug dealing.
The Tanka staff are now co-owners of the company. (Photo by Katie Hunter)
The farmer's market in New Rochelle, New York. (Photo by Project for Public Spaces)
Republican mayor Mick Cornett (left) inaugurates one of many new sidewalk projects. (Photo from America Walks case study)
The debate about saving the village hospital on the TV show mirrors the fate of community hospitals in the US today. (Photo by Kevin Oliver under a Creative Commons license.)
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Piazza Verdi in Bologna, a city incorporating commons practices into its government operations. (By Tyler Durdan under a Creative Commons license)
In St. Louis, Detroit and Cleveland, new parks foster economic opportunities
OTC explores Winona, Minnesota
A Southern town that broadens government role in promoting the common good. (Photo by J. Stephen Conn under a CC license)
Somerset, Kentucky bucks big corporations by selling its citizens gasoline at lower costs