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.
Great city neighborhoods are often mid-rise, not high-rise. (By La Citta Vita under a CC license)
By Moyan Brenn under a CC license
By Erik Soderstrom under a CC license
Copenhagen bikers have their own lane raised from the street. (By Spacing magazine under a CC license.)
Even with heavy traffic traffic, many New York streets accomodate pedestrians. (By Ed Yourdon under a CC license.)
(By Dylan Passmore under a CC license)
A Southern town that broadens government role in promoting the common good. (Photo by J. Stephen Conn under a CC license)
Community commons arise in places once dominated roads, railyards and parking spaces
Public universities in Red States field top notch basketball teams, but state politicians in many of these states are slashing the universities' budgets. (By Brad J. Ward under a Creative Commons license.)
Why basketball fans booed the Kansas governor
Conservatives, progressives and everyone else likes farmers' markets, local food, mom-and-pop stores and other qualities of a thriving community. Can they all connect around the commons? (Photo of the Barberton, Ohio, Downtown Farmers Market by the Barberton Community Foundation under a Creative Commons license.)
Not socialism, not capitalism…Distributism seeks community power
